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FUNGI
Definition of FUNGI
noun
Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FUNGI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 151 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FUNGI starts with F and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read FGINU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FUNGI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found FUNGI?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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