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FANFARE
Definition of FANFARE
noun
A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French fanfare; some senses apparently influenced by surface analysis, fan + fare.
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
7.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,903)
branch · 15.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FANFARE · 3 relatives 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.
FANFARE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FANFARE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEFFNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F and A appear more than once.
Words that start FANFAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FANFARE?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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