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FRESH
Definition of FRESH
adjective
Newly produced or obtained; recent.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk frisk (“fresh”), Swedish frisk (“well, fresh”), Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk. Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.
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Word DNA
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 (11,575)
How it is built
Same root, FRESH · 11 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, French, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Scots, Swedish.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FRESH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FRESH starts with F and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read EFHRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FRESH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found FRESH?
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