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FRAUGHT
Definition of FRAUGHT
noun
The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo. Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English fraught, fraght, freght (“transport of goods or people (usually by water); charge for such transport; facilities for such transport; cargo or passengers of a ship; ballast of a ship; goods in general; (figurative) burden; charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (“cargo, freight; charge for transport of goods”), from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz, from *fra- (intensifying prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“acquisition; possessions, property”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)). Doublet of freight.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,595)
How it is built
Same root, FRAUGHT · 3 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FRAUGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 88 boards so far. 396 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FRAUGHT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AFGHRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FRAUGH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
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