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REFLUENT
Definition of REFLUENT
adjective
Flowing back.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“to flow back”).
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.
REFLUENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 98, 26 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
REFLUENT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EEFLNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start REFLUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found REFLUENT?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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