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FOLIOT
Definition of FOLIOT
noun
Part of the verge escapement in early clocks.
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Where it comes from
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOLIOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FOLIOT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read FILOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found FOLIOT?
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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.
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