The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FEROCIOUS
Definition of FEROCIOUS
adjective
Marked by extreme and violent energy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Taken from Latin ferōx (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”) + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FEROCIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 119 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FEROCIOUS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEFIOORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start FEROCI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FEROCIOUS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER