The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FITCHEW
Definition of FITCHEW
noun
polecat
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English fitchewes (mistaken as a plural), variant of Middle English fichouse, ficheux, from Old French fissiauls (plural) and fichau, fissel (“polecat”), from Middle Dutch vitsche, visse, fisse (“polecat”), ultimately (via a Northern French dialect) from Latin vissiō (“stench”). Compare French vison (“mink”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FITCHEW · 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.
FITCHEW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FITCHEW starts with F and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read CEFHITW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FITCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found FITCHEW?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER