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FRICANDOES
Definition of FRICANDOES
noun
plural of fricando
FRICANDEAU · via fricando
noun
Thinly sliced meat, especially veal, fried or stewed with a sauce; a fricassee.
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FRICANDOES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FRICANDOES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEFINORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FRICAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found FRICANDOES?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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