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FLOOR

/flɔː/5 letters

Definition of FLOOR

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floor function

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Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell”), Limburgish Vlǫǫr (“floor”), Low German Floor (“hallway or entrance to a house”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”); also Breton and Cornish leur (“floor, ground, surface”), Irish lár (“floor, ground”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“earth, floor, ground”), Manx laare (“bottom, deck, floor; level, storey”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“even, flat, level”), Greek απαλάμη (apalámi), παλάμη (palámi, “hand, palm”), Albanian pëllëmbë (“palm”), Latgalian pluons (“thin”), Latvian plāns (“thin”), Lithuanian plonas (“fine, slender, thin”), Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian по́ле (póle, “field”), Bulgarian поле́ (polé, “field”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak pole (“field”), Serbo-Croatian по̏ље, pȍlje (“field”), Slovene polje (“field”), Hittite 𒁄𒄭𒅖 (palḫis, “broad, wide”). Related to flat.

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.

FLOOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 123
Its 5 boards, across 123 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
30
First board
110
Latest board
51
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start FLOOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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