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FRIVOLING

9 letters

Definition of FRIVOLING

verb

present participle and gerund of frivol

FRIVOL

verb

To behave frivolously.

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Word DNA

FRIVOLING inherits its ancestry from its root, FRIVOL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,726)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, FRIVOL · 5 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FRIVOLING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 13 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
33
First board
157
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

metaphysical

on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FRIVOLING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FRIVOLING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read FGIILNORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start FRIVOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FRIVOLFRIVOLSFRIVOLEDFRIVOLERFRIVOLERSFRIVOLITYFRIVOLLEDFRIVOLLERFRIVOLOUSFRIVOLLERSFRIVOLLINGFRIVOLITIES

Could you have found FRIVOLING?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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