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FUSTIGATE

9 letters

Definition of FUSTIGATE

verb

To hit someone with a club.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin fūstīgātus, perfect passive participle of fūstīgō (“to cudgel to death”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūstis (“a cudgel”) + -igō.

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.

FUSTIGATE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
106
First board
120
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

shrubber

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FUSTIGATE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FUSTIGATE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEFGISTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Words that start FUSTIG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FUSTIGATEDFUSTIGATESFUSTIGATORFUSTIGATINGFUSTIGATIONFUSTIGATORSFUSTIGATORYFUSTIGATIONS

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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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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