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FAUGH

/fɔː/5 letters

Definition of FAUGH

interjection

An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps also related to some Old Norse root? Like fie (fy) seems to be?”)

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.

FAUGH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 30 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
30
Boards found on
29
First board
109
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

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

Built from these letters

FAUGH
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found FAUGH?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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