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AFFORDANCES
Definition of AFFORDANCES
noun
plural of affordance
AFFORDANCE
noun
Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
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Word DNA
AFFORDANCES inherits its ancestry from its root, AFFORD.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,911)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AFFORD · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AFFORDANCES 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 21 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
AFFORDANCES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACDEFFNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and F appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start AFFORDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AFFORDANCES?
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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