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FROUGHIEST
Definition of FROUGHIEST
Wiktionary has no entry for FROUGHIEST itself. This is its base word, FROUGHY.
adjective
Loose, spongy, or easily broken.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for FROUGHY.
Compare frow.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
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.
FROUGHIEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FROUGHIEST starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EFGHIORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found FROUGHIEST?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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