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FROWS

5 letters

Definition of FROWS

noun

plural of frow

FROW

noun

A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.

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Word DNA

FROWS inherits its ancestry from its root, FROW.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Middle Dutch
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,575)

How it is built

noun

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 →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

FROWS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 24 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
43
First board
163
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

ema

on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FROWS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FROWS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read FORSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FROWS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FROWS?

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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.

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