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FAMILY
Definition of FAMILY
noun
A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred and hād. Doublet of familia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (10,004)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FAMILY · 2 relatives in the game
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.
FAMILY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 45 boards so far. 84 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FAMILY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFILMY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found FAMILY?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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