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FIREDRAKE
Definition of FIREDRAKE
noun
A fire-breathing dragon, or otherwise fiery dragon.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compound of fire + drake, from Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca (“fire-spewing dragon”). Piecewise doublet of firedragon.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,849)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FIREDRAKE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FIREDRAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
Built from these letters
FIREDRAKE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEEFIKRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.
Words that start FIREDR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FIREDRAKE?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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