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FENUGREEK

/ˈfɛnjʊˌɡɹiːk/9 letters

Definition of FENUGREEK

noun

Any of the species leguminous plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, eaten as a vegetable and with seeds used as a spice.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English fenygreke, borrowed from Old French fenigrec, from Latin foenum-graecum (literally “Greek hay”), from foenum (“hay”, variant of faenum) + graecus (“Greek”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

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Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Boards found on
113
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

smallhill

on Day 113, 10 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FENUGREEK
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FENUGREEK starts with F and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read EEEFGKNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start FENUGR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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