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FIRESIDE

8 letters

Definition of FIRESIDE

noun

The area near a domestic fire or hearth.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From fire + side.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, FIRESIDE · 1 relative 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.

FIRESIDE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 12 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
42
First board
149
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First found by a player on Day 42, 1 July 2026.

Built from these letters

FIRESIDE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FIRESIDE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEEFIIRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and E appear more than once.

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start FIRESI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FIRESIDE?

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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.

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