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FLOATY
Definition of FLOATY
adjective
Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant. Of a ship: having a shallow draft (the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull), and thus drawing less (that is, floating higher in) water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From float (noun or verb) + -y (suffix meaning ‘inclined to’ forming adjectives). Compare Middle English floti, floty (“of a place: well supplied with water”).
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.
FLOATY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FLOATY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFLOTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found FLOATY?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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