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FARE

/ˈfɛə/4 letters

Definition of FARE

noun

A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English fare, from a merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).

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.

FARE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 8 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
25
First board
104
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start FARE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FAREDFARERFARESFARERSFAREBOXFAREWELLFAREBOXESFAREWELLSFAREWELLEDFAREWELLING

Could you have found FARE?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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