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FAMILIARITY
Definition of FAMILIARITY
noun
The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,117)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FAMILIARITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FAMILIARITY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AAFIIILMRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.
Words that start FAMILIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FAMILIARITY?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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