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FLOWINGS

8 letters

Definition of FLOWINGS

noun

plural of flowing

FLOW · via flowing

noun

Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.

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Word DNA

FLOWINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, FLOW.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,164)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, FLOW · 20 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FLOWINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its 3 boards, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
156
First board
162
Latest board
4
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 156, 23 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

philthyphil

on Day 156, 23 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FLOWINGS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FLOWINGS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read FGILNOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start FLOWIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FLOWINGFLOWINGLYFLOWINGNESS

Could you have found FLOWINGS?

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 156 - and most players walked straight past it.

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