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WAYFARE
Definition of WAYFARE
noun
Travel, journeying.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WAYFARE carries 4 further meanings.
To journey; travel, especially on foot: now only in the present participle or the verbal noun.
noun
The act of journeying; travel; passage.
intransitive verb
To journey; to travel; to go to and fro.
verb
To travel; make a journey.
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,853)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WAYFARE · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, German, Icelandic, Swedish.
WAYFARE in a sentence
“By Allah the Omnipotent, O my lord, I have taken a loathing to wayfare, and when I hear the words ‘Voyage’ or”
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 35 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
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 mean much the same
Near-synonyms of WAYFARE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
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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