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FRAIL
Definition of FRAIL
adjective
Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.
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.
FRAIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FRAIL starts with F and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AFILR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start FRAIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found FRAIL?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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