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FLUMP

/flʌmp/5 letters

Definition of FLUMP

interjection

A sound of something moving or falling heavily, or with a dull sound.

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Other senses

FLUMP carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    A dull heavy sound, as of something dropped on a surface.

  2. intransitive verb

    To move or fall heavily with a dull sound.

    “flumped onto the sofa.”

  3. intransitive verb

    To place or drop with a flump.

  4. To throw down with violence.

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

interjection1 syllable

Same root, FLUMP · 3 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

FLUMP in a sentence

“Several more seconds led to several smaller "flump" sounds, and we were eventually left with a pile of warm, steamy Boll bits, and a slightly perplexed material science engineer!”

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Rarity score
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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.

FLUMP in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 43 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
43
Boards found on
37
First board
150
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

diannev

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FLUMP
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of FLUMP. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

Words that start FLUMP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FLUMP?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

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