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FOXTAILS
Definition of FOXTAILS
noun
plural of foxtail
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Another sense
FOXTAILS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of foxtail.
Word DNA
FOXTAILS inherits its ancestry from its root, FOXTAIL.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.1%
of traced words share this origin (4,790)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FOXTAIL · 1 relative in the game
FOXTAILS in a sentence
“Down and around the hump to Mandano and the razor wire marking the rez, through Tyree and Cochise into New Belfast by the Great Northern tracks, the roundhouse, the foxtails, the rutted roads involving sticky oil-partly dirt.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOXTAILS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FOXTAILS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFILOSTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found FOXTAILS?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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