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FYLFOT
Definition of FYLFOT
noun
A swastika, especially one with the arms bent in an anticlockwise direction.
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Where it comes from
Uncertain, but likely from Middle English fillen (“to fill”) (from Old English fyllan) + fot (“foot”) (from Old English fōt), in reference to its use as a design to be placed at the bottom of stained-glass windows.
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.
FYLFOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FYLFOT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read FFLOTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once.
Words that start FYLFOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FYLFOT?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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