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FLUGELS
Definition of FLUGELS
noun
plural of flugel
FLUGELHORN · via flugel
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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Word DNA
FLUGELS inherits its ancestry from its root, FLUGEL.
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (815)
branch · 22.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FLUGEL · 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.
FLUGELS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FLUGELS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFGLLSU - 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 FLUGELS?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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