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FETIDS

6 letters

Definition of FETIDS

noun

plural of fetid

FETID

adjective

Foul-smelling, stinking.

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Word DNA

FETIDS inherits its ancestry from its root, FETID.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

32.4%

of traced words share this origin (8,352)

Italic

branch · 32.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, FETID · 3 relatives in the game

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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.

FETIDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 129
Its 2 boards, across 129 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
128
First board
129
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

know

on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FETIDS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found FETIDS?

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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.

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