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FIVE
Definition of FIVE
noun
NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 5.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English fyf, fyve, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii. The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 68, 27 July 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
FIVE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFIV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FIVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found FIVE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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