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FARDINGS

8 letters

Definition of FARDINGS

noun

plural of farding

FARD · via farding

verb

To paint, as the cheeks or face.

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Word DNA

FARDINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, FARDING.

How it is built

noun

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

FARDINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 7 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
72
First board
157
Latest board
36
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

kimmy

on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

FARDINGS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start FARDIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FARDINGS?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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