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INFANCY
Definition of INFANCY
noun
The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English infancie, from Latin īnfantia (“infancy, early childhood; childishness”), equivalent to infant + -cy.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INFANCY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 34 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INFANCY starts with I and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACFINNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start INFANC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INFANCY?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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