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FIERY

/ˈfaɪəɹi/5 letters

Definition of FIERY

adjective

Of or relating to fire.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English fyry, from fyr (“fire”), equivalent to fire + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,231)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Every Middle English 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.

FIERY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 96 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 32 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
12
First board
147
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

jvafai

on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FIERY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FIERY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFIRY - 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 FIERY?

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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.

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