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FEIGN
Definition of FEIGN
verb
To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint, figment and fiction.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FEIGN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 120 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 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
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FEIGN starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EFGIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FEIGN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found FEIGN?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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