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FLOATER
Definition of FLOATER
noun
A person who floats. A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid. A corpse floating in a body of water. A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role. A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant.
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Where it comes from
From float + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Compare Old English flota (“boat, ship", also "sailor, pirate”, literally “floater”), whence Middle English flote (“a fleet of ships", also, "a float, flotation device”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLOATER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 49, 8 July 2026.
Built from these letters
FLOATER starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEFLORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start FLOATE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 47
Could you have found FLOATER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 47 - and most players walked straight past it.
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