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FOMES
Definition of FOMES
noun
Morbid matter created by a disease.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From medical Latin fōmes (“fomite”), a figurative extension of its original sense of kindling, tinder, etc. Gradually supplanted in use by fomite, a mistaken backformation of its plural form fomites, from Latin fōmitēs.
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.
FOMES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FOMES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFMOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found FOMES?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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