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FOLX
Definition of FOLX
noun
Alternative spelling of folks.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Variant of folks. While the word was already gender-neutral, the suffix -x is a deliberate social signal of awareness of sexual minorities. Compare English Latinx.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOLX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FOLX starts with F and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read FLOX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found FOLX?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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