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FOOD

/fuːd/4 letters

Definition of FOOD

noun

Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (fōdeins, “food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

FOOD in OUTLIER

It has fitted 1 board so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its one board, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards it fitted
76
First board
21
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

FOOD
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start FOOD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FOODSFOODYFOODIEFOODFULFOODIESFOODISMFOODISMSFOODLESSFOODWAYSFOODSTUFFFOODSTUFFSFOODLESSNESS

Could you have found FOOD?

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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.

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