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FENNIES
Definition of FENNIES
noun
plural of fenny.
adjective
Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.
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Word DNA
FENNIES inherits its ancestry from its root, FENNY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,343)
How it is built
Same root, FENNY · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FENNIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 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
FENNIES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEFINNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start FENNIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FENNIES?
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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