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AREFIES

7 letters

Definition of AREFIES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of arefy

AREFY

verb

To dry, or make dry; wither.

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Word DNA

AREFIES inherits its ancestry from its root, AREFY.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

32.5%

of traced words share this origin (8,658)

Italic

branch · 32.5% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, AREFY · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

AREFIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 134
Its one board, across 134 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
134
First board
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Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

bducks

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AREFIES
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AREFIES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEFIRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start AREFIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AREFIES?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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