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FULMARS

7 letters

Definition of FULMARS

noun

plural of fulmar

FULMAR

noun

Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.

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Word DNA

FULMARS inherits its ancestry from its root, FULMAR.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. Icelandic
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

14th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (824)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, FULMAR · 1 relative in the game

Every Old Norse word → · 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.

FULMARS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 165
Its 25 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
25
Boards found on
26
First board
164
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

zzombie

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FULMARS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start FULMAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FULMARS?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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