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FRIENDLY
Definition of FRIENDLY
adjective
Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”). Doublet of friendlike.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (970)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FRIENDLY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FRIENDLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 116 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FRIENDLY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEFILNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FRIEND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found FRIENDLY?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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