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FETCHINGS

9 letters

Definition of FETCHINGS

noun

plural of fetching

FETCHING

adjective

Attractive; pleasant to regard.

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Word DNA

FETCHINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, FETCH.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,769)

How it is built

noun

Same root, FETCH · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

FETCHINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 6 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
156
First board
166
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 156, 23 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 156, 23 October 2026.

Built from these letters

FETCHINGS
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FETCHINGS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEFGHINST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FETCHI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FETCHINGS?

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 156 - and most players walked straight past it.

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