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FOULE

5 letters

Definition of FOULE

noun

A light woollen fabric with a slight nap, fulled in the making.

Word DNA

How it is built

noun

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FOULE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 16 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
72
First board
153
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

geiger

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FOULE
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FOULE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFLOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FOULE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FOULE?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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