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INFLUXES

8 letters

Definition of INFLUXES

noun

plural of influx

INFLUX

noun

A flow inward or into something; a coming in.

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Another sense

INFLUXES carries a second meaning.

  1. noun

    Plural form of influx.

Word DNA

INFLUXES inherits its ancestry from its root, INFLUX.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,981)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, INFLUX · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

INFLUXES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 151 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 19 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
19
Boards found on
65
First board
157
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

daki

on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

INFLUXES
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INFLUXES starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFILNSUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start INFLUX

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INFLUXINFLUXIONINFLUXIVEINFLUXIONS

Could you have found INFLUXES?

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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.

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