The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FUMAROLE
Definition of FUMAROLE
noun
An opening in the ground that emits steam and gases due to volcanic activity.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
FUMAROLE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A hole in a volcanic area from which hot smoke and gases escape.
noun
A hole from which vapor issues in a Sulphur-mine or a volcano.
noun
Sainte-Claire Deville distinguishes the following: Dry fumaroles, which are very hot and yield volatilized anhydrous (for example, ferric) chlorids.
noun
Acid fumaroles, which yield sulphurous and hydrochloric fumes and steam.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian fumarola. Likely a doublet of femerell. By surface analysis, fume + -ar + -ola.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,392)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FUMAROLE · 4 relatives in the game
FUMAROLE in a sentence
“Despite the low turnout, however, business was conducted: the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which generated by far the most buzz on the show floor, landed a seven-figure deal for a memoir that will cover its early days as a steam-venting fumarole right through to its headline-making eruption.”
Laurence Hughes: Things I'd Like to See This Weekend on C-SPAN's "Book TV", 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FUMAROLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FUMAROLE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEFLMORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found FUMAROLE?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER