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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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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,614)
How it is built
Same root, FIVE · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Dutch, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit and 2 more.
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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
It has fitted 1 board so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 68, 27 July 2026.
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.
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