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FARFELS
Definition of FARFELS
Wiktionary has no entry for FARFELS itself. This is its base word, FARFEL.
noun
Small pellet-shaped egg pasta in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made instead out of matzah during Passover.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for FARFEL.
From Yiddish פֿאַרפֿל (farfl).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Yiddish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
30th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (207)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FARFEL · 1 relative 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.
FARFELS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FARFELS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEFFLRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found FARFELS?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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