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FARTHINGALES
Definition of FARTHINGALES
noun
plural of farthingale
noun
A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
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Word DNA
FARTHINGALES inherits its ancestry from its root, FARTHINGALE.
Line of descent
- Spanish
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.2%
of traced words share this origin (925)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FARTHINGALE · 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.
FARTHINGALES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FARTHINGALES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEFGHILNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start FARTHING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FARTHINGALES?
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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.
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