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FLORET
Definition of FLORET
noun
A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French florete, diminutive of flor (“flower”). Doublet of fleuret and floweret.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,358)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FLORET · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLORET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 59, 18 July 2026.
Built from these letters
FLORET starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EFLORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found FLORET?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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