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FRETTY
Definition of FRETTY
adjective
Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From fret (“lattice, trellis”) + -y.
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.
FRETTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FRETTY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFRTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found FRETTY?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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