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FRANKLINS
Definition of FRANKLINS
noun
plural of franklin
FRANKLIN
noun
A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking at the bottom of the gentry.
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Word DNA
FRANKLINS inherits its ancestry from its root, FRANKLIN.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
30th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (198)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FRANKLIN · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FRANKLINS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FRANKLINS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFIKLNNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start FRANKL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FRANKLINS?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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