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FELLOWS

/ˈfɛloʊz/7 letters

Definition of FELLOWS

noun

plural of fellow

FELLOW

noun

A companion; a comrade.

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Word DNA

FELLOWS inherits its ancestry from its root, FELLOW.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Old Norse
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 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 (11,769)

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Same root, FELLOW · 5 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

FELLOWS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
110
First board
131
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 35 days.

First ever to find it

bucklebean

on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FELLOWS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FELLOWS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFLLOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start FELLOW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FELLOWFELLOWEDFELLOWLYFELLOWINGFELLOWMANFELLOWMENFELLOWSHIPFELLOWSHIPSFELLOWSHIPEDFELLOWSHIPINGFELLOWSHIPPEDFELLOWSHIPPING

Could you have found FELLOWS?

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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.

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