The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FLUORIDATE
Definition of FLUORIDATE
verb
To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
FLUORIDATE carries 3 further meanings.
transitive verb
To add a fluorine compound to (a drinking water supply, for example) for the purpose of reducing tooth decay.
transitive verb
To subject to fluoridation, as of water; to add fluoride to.
verb
subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride
“fluoridize the teeth of children”
Where it comes from
Back-formation from fluoridation, equivalent to fluoride + -ate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, FLUORIDATE · 3 relatives in the game
FLUORIDATE in a sentence
“Amazingly, the United States is only one of eight countries in the entire developed world that fluoridate more than 50 percent of their water supply.”
Dr. Joseph Mercola: The Health Hazards of Water Fluoridation (VIDEO), 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLUORIDATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FLUORIDATE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEFILORTU - 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 FLUORIDATE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start FLUORI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found FLUORIDATE?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER