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PALFREYS
Definition of PALFREYS
noun
plural of palfrey
noun
A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).
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Word DNA
PALFREYS inherits its ancestry from its root, PALFREY.
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
34th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (59)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PALFREY · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PALFREYS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 60, 19 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 60, 19 July 2026.
Built from these letters
PALFREYS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEFLPRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PALFRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 60
Could you have found PALFREYS?
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 60 - and most players walked straight past it.
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