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FIDELITY
Definition of FIDELITY
noun
Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
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Where it comes from
15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis (“faithful”), from fidēs (“faith, loyalty”) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ-, zero-grade of *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (English bide). Doublet of fealty.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,191)
How it is built
Same root, FIDELITY · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FIDELITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 57 boards so far. 202 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FIDELITY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEFIILTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start FIDELI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found FIDELITY?
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