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CHAFE
Definition of CHAFE
noun
Heat excited by friction.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English chaufen (“to warm”), borrowed from Old French chaufer (modern French chauffer), from Latin calefacere, calfacere (“to make warm”), from calere (“to be warm”) + facere (“to make”). See caldron.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHAFE · 3 relatives 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.
CHAFE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 73 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CHAFE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEFH - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CHAFE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found CHAFE?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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