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FUMITORY

8 letters

Definition of FUMITORY

noun

Any plant of the taxonomic genus Fumaria of annual herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to temperate Europe and Asia.

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Where it comes from

From late Middle English fumyter (with remodelling of suffix), from Old French fumeterre, from Latin fūmus terrae.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

FUMITORY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 11 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
9
First board
117
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

FUMITORY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start FUMITO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FUMITORY?

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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.

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