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FORMICANT
Definition of FORMICANT
adjective
Crawling like an ant.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin formica (“ant”); so called because supposed to resemble the motion of an ant.
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.
FORMICANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FORMICANT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACFIMNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FORMIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FORMICANT?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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