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FIREWEED

8 letters

Definition of FIREWEED

noun

A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From fire + weed. The fire-part may be of same origin as eld-part in dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk eldmerke (“fireweed”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

FIREWEED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its one board, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
113
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

harlowe

on Day 113, 10 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FIREWEED
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FIREWEED starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEEFIRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start FIREWE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FIREWEED?

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 113 - and most players walked straight past it.

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