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FLOOD

/flʌd/5 letters

Definition of FLOOD

noun

An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

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Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)-. Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).

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.

FLOOD in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 110
Its 9 boards, across 110 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
27
First board
110
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.

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Built from these letters

FLOOD
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FLOOD starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DFLOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

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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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.

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