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FOOTAGE
Definition of FOOTAGE
noun
An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips. Compare typologically French métrage.
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.
FOOTAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FOOTAGE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEFGOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found FOOTAGE?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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