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FAULD

/fɔld/5 letters

Definition of FAULD

noun

A piece of armor worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English fold (“enclosure”). Doublet of fold.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

FAULD in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 18 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
37
First board
109
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

peoniesandpanic

on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start FAULD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FAULD?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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