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FUTZERS

7 letters

Definition of FUTZERS

noun

plural of futzer

FUTZER

noun

One who futzes.

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Word DNA

FUTZERS inherits its ancestry from its root, FUTZ.

Line of descent

  1. German
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

German

Deepest traced root

8th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (2,869)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, FUTZ · 6 relatives in the game

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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.

FUTZERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its one board, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
160
First board
15
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First ever to find it

emzin

on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FUTZERS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FUTZERS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFRSTUZ - 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 FUTZER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FUTZERS?

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 160 - and most players walked straight past it.

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