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FIRED
Definition of FIRED
adjective
dismissed, terminated from employment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From fire + -ed.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FIRED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FIRED starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEFIR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start FIRED
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found FIRED?
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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