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FECUND
Definition of FECUND
adjective
Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
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.
FECUND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 92 boards so far. 1003 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FECUND starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEFNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FECUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found FECUND?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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