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FLUGELHORN
Definition of FLUGELHORN
noun
A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Flügelhorn, from Flügel (“wing, flank”) + horn.
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.
FLUGELHORN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FLUGELHORN starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EFGHLLNORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Words that start FLUGEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FLUGELHORN?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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