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FAINEANTS
Definition of FAINEANTS
noun
plural of faineant
FAINEANT
noun
An irresponsible or lazy person.
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Word DNA
FAINEANTS inherits its ancestry from its root, FAINEANT.
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.8%
of traced words share this origin (751)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FAINEANT · 1 relative 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.
FAINEANTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FAINEANTS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEFINNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and N appear more than once.
Words that start FAINEA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FAINEANTS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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