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FARLING
Definition of FARLING
verb
present participle and gerund of farl
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Word DNA
FARLING inherits its ancestry from its root, FARL.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Irish
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,195)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FARL · 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.
FARLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FARLING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AFGILNR - 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.
Could you have found FARLING?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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