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FALCONRY
Definition of FALCONRY
noun
The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French fauconnerie.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,144)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FALCONRY · 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.
FALCONRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 139 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FALCONRY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACFLNORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FALCON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found FALCONRY?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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