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FOLKWAY

/ˈfəʊkweɪ/7 letters

Definition of FOLKWAY

noun

A belief or custom common to members of a culture or society.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From folk + way.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

FOLKWAY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 2 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
103
First board
112
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 103, 31 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

leafstar

on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FOLKWAY
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FOLKWAY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFKLOWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FOLKWA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FOLKWAY?

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 103 - and most players walked straight past it.

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