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FUTUROLOGY
Definition of FUTUROLOGY
noun
The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From future + -ology. Attested once in 1934 as the title of play, Futureology; in later use, after German Futurologie, suggested in a 1942 letter to the American scholar John H. Herz by the German political scientist Ossip K. Flechtheim, who used futurology in a 1943 Phylon article.
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.
FUTUROLOGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 61 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FUTUROLOGY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FGLOORTUUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and O appear more than once.
Words that start FUTURO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found FUTUROLOGY?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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