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RAREFIES

8 letters

Definition of RAREFIES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of rarefy

RAREFY

verb

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.

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Word DNA

RAREFIES inherits its ancestry from its root, RAREFY.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,072)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-fy

Same root, RAREFY · 4 relatives in the game

Every Latin 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.

RAREFIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
151
First board
20
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First ever to find it

toastlackey

on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RAREFIES
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

RAREFIES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEFIRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.

Words that start RAREFI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RAREFIEDRAREFIERRAREFIERSRAREFIABLERAREFICATION

Could you have found RAREFIES?

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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.

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