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FENLANDS
Definition of FENLANDS
noun
plural of fenland
FENLAND
noun
A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy.
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Word DNA
FENLANDS inherits its ancestry from its root, FENLAND.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,961)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FENLAND · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Middle Low 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.
FENLANDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FENLANDS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEFLNNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start FENLAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FENLANDS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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