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FRICO
Definition of FRICO
noun
A traditional Friulian cheese dish in which cheese is shredded and then pan-fried.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian frico, borrowed from Friulian frico. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,398)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
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.
FRICO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 170, 6 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
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
FRICO starts with F and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read CFIOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found FRICO?
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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