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FOTHER
Definition of FOTHER
noun
A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English fother, fothir, from Old Norse fóðr (cognate to Old English fōdor), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare Dutch voer (“pasture, fodder”), German Futter (“feed”), Swedish foder). Doublet of fodder and foeder. More at food.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOTHER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
FOTHER starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EFHORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FOTHER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found FOTHER?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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