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INFLUENZA
Definition of INFLUENZA
noun
An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian influenza (“influence”), from Latin influentia. Doublet of influence.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INFLUENZA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INFLUENZA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INFLUENZA starts with I and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEFILNNUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start INFLUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INFLUENZA?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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