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FAME
Definition of FAME
noun
Something said or reported; gossip, rumour.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English fame, from Old French fame (“celebrity, renown”), itself borrowed from Latin fāma (“talk, rumor, report, reputation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂-meh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say, tell”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φήμη (phḗmē, “talk”). Related also to Latin for (“speak, say”, verb), Old English bōian (“to boast”), Old English bēn (“prayer, request”), Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim”). More at ban. Displaced native Old English hlīsa.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FAME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FAME starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEFM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found FAME?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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