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FENS
Definition of FENS
noun
plural of fen
FEN
noun
A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
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Word DNA
FENS inherits its ancestry from its root, FEN.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,506)
How it is built
Same root, FEN · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Irish, Norwegian, Russian, Sanskrit.
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.
FENS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 65 boards so far. 115 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FENS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found FENS?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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