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KHARIFS
Definition of KHARIFS
Wiktionary has no entry for KHARIFS itself. This is its base word, KHARIF.
adjective
Of crops: cultivated and harvested during the monsoon season.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for KHARIF.
From Urdu خریف (xarīf), from Arabic خَرِيف (ḵarīf, “autumn”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,071)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, KHARIF · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
KHARIFS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 62, 21 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KHARIFS starts with K and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFHIKRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found KHARIFS?
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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.
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