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FLORESCENT
Definition of FLORESCENT
adjective
Flowering or budding.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin florescens, present active participle of floresco (“I flower”).
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.
FLORESCENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FLORESCENT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEEFLNORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start FLORES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found FLORESCENT?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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