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FAVOURS

/ˈfeɪ.vɚz/7 letters

Definition of FAVOURS

noun

plural of favour

FAVOR · via favour

noun

A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).

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Word DNA

FAVOURS inherits its ancestry from its root, FAVOR.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Anglo-Norman
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,575)

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, FAVOR · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Irish.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

FAVOURS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 13 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
28
First board
160
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

FAVOURS
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start FAVOUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FAVOURS?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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