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FRECKS
Definition of FRECKS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of freck
noun
Synonym of freckle (“a small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin; any small spot which has a different colour from its background”).
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Word DNA
FRECKS inherits its ancestry from its root, FRECK.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,230)
How it is built
Same root, FRECK · 1 relative 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.
FRECKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 170, 6 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 170, 6 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FRECKS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEFKRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found FRECKS?
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 170 - and most players walked straight past it.
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