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FUSTIER

7 letters

Definition of FUSTIER

adjective

comparative form of fusty: more fusty

FUSTY

adjective

Moldy or musty.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

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FUSTIER in a sentence

“The classroom smelled fustier than usual, and I desperately needed some fresh air.”

Lifted, 2010

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

FUSTIER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 65 boards so far. 104 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 65 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
65
Boards found on
28
First board
150
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

bob

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FUSTIER
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FUSTIER starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EFIRSTU - 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.

Words that start FUSTIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FUSTIER?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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