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FOLKS

/fəʊks/5 letters

Definition of FOLKS

noun

The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents

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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.

FOLKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 115
Its 13 boards, across 115 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
30
First board
115
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.

Built from these letters

FOLKS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start FOLKS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FOLKSYFOLKSIERFOLKSILYFOLKSONGFOLKSIESTFOLKSONGSFOLKSINESSFOLKSINGERFOLKSONOMYFOLKSINGERSFOLKSINGINGFOLKSINESSES

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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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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