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FOOTLE
Definition of FOOTLE
verb
To waste time; to trifle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably variant of footer (“to screw around”), from obsolete fouter (“an act of sexual intercourse”), from French foutre (“to have sexual intercourse”), from Latin futuere.
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.
FOOTLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FOOTLE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFLOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start FOOTLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FOOTLE?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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