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FOAMY

/ˈfəʊmi/5 letters

Definition of FOAMY

adjective

Full of foam.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FOAMY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 121
Its 11 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
27
First board
119
Latest board
43
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.

Built from these letters

FOAMY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found FOAMY?

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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.

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