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FEARSOME
Definition of FEARSOME
adjective
Frightening, especially in appearance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From fear + -some. Compare German furchtsam (“fearful”, obsolete also “fearsome”); this is more closely equivalent to English frightsome, however.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, FEAR · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FEARSOME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FEARSOME starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEFMORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start FEARSO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found FEARSOME?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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