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FAQIR
Definition of FAQIR
noun
Alternative spelling of fakir.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
FAQIR carries 2 further meanings.
noun
A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
noun
a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,061)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FAQIR · 1 relative in the game
FAQIR in a sentence
“The alternate spelling "faqir" is very useful to Scrabble players, as an example of a permitted word that has a Q but not a U.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FAQIR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FAQIR starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AFIQR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found FAQIR?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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