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FAND

/fænd/4 letters

Definition of FAND

verb

simple past of find.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English fand, first- and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FAND in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 5 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
42
First board
119
Latest board
65
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

jjellybean

on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FAND
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FAND starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADFN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FAND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FANDSFANDEDFANDOMFANDINGFANDOMSFANDANGOFANDANGLEFANDANGOSFANDANGLESFANDANGOES

Could you have found FAND?

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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.

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