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FURZE

/fɜː(ɹ)z/5 letters

Definition of FURZE

noun

A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English firse, furs, from Old English fyrs (“furze, gorse, bramble”), from Old English fyres (“furze”), related to Old English fȳr (“fire”); otherwise of unknown origin.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FURZE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 4 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
21
First board
107
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

eve

on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

FURZE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFRUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start FURZE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FURZE?

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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.

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