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FRIKKADEL
Definition of FRIKKADEL
noun
A traditional Afrikaner dish of baked (or sometimes deep-fried) meatballs prepared with onion, bread, eggs, vinegar, and spices.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Afrikaans frikkadel, from Dutch frikadel. Doublet of fricadelle, fricandeau, and frikadelle.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.8%
of traced words share this origin (241)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FRIKKADEL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FRIKKADEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FRIKKADEL starts with F and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADEFIKKLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. K appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found FRIKKADEL?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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