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FUNKIA
Definition of FUNKIA
noun
Any of the plants of the genus Funkia (now Hosta).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the genus name, translingual Funkia, from German Funck, after botanist H. C. Funck.
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.
FUNKIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FUNKIA starts with F and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AFIKNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FUNKIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FUNKIA?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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