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WAYFARE
Definition of WAYFARE
noun
Travel, journeying.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English weyfaren, originally in participle form weyfarand, from Old English weġfarende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Danish vejfarende (“wayfaring”), Swedish vägfarande, German wegfahren (“to drive away”), Icelandic vegfarandi (“wayfaring”). More at way, fare.
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.
WAYFARE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WAYFARE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEFRWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start WAYFAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found WAYFARE?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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