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FLIT

/flɪt/4 letters

Definition of FLIT

noun

A fluttering or darting movement.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”). Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FLIT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 30 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
30
Boards found on
19
First board
102
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

epimetheon

on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FLIT
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FLIT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read FILT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start FLIT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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