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FAUNIC
Definition of FAUNIC
adjective
Pertaining to fauna: faunal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From fauna + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FAUNIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FAUNIC starts with F and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACFINU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found FAUNIC?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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