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FERVOR
Definition of FERVOR
noun
An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English fervour, from Old French, from Latin fervor (“a boiling or raging heat, heat, vehemence, passion”), from fervere (“to boil, be hot”); see fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -or (“abstract noun suffix”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FERVOR · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FERVOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FERVOR starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EFORRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Could you have found FERVOR?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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