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FROW
Definition of FROW
noun
A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle Dutch vrouwe (“lady”), from Old Dutch *frōwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ (“lady, mistress”), from Proto-Indo-European *prōw- (“right; judge, master”). Cognate with Dutch vrouw (“woman, wife, lady, mistress”), Low German frouw, frauw (“woman, wife, lady”), German Frau (“woman, wife, lady”), Swedish fru, Icelandic freyja (“lady, mistress”, in compounds), Old English frōwe (“woman”), Old English frēa (“lord, master, husband”). Doublet of frau, vrou, and vrouw.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,575)
How it is built
Same root, FROW · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Old English, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FROW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 42, 1 July 2026.
Built from these letters
FROW starts with F and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read FORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FROW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found FROW?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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