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WAYFARING
Definition of WAYFARING
adjective
Travelling, especially on foot.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WAYFARING carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Traveling, especially on foot.
Journeying; traveling, especially on foot.
adjective
Traveling; passing; being on a journey.
adjective
a European shrub (Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers.
Where it comes from
From Middle English wayferande, weyverinde, wayverinde, from Old English weġfarende, weġfērende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Icelandic vegfarandi. More at wayfare.
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 (2,890)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WAYFARE · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic.
WAYFARING in a sentence
“And how about that verse about Mary and her "wayfaring"?”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WAYFARING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 147 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WAYFARING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AAFGINRWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of WAYFARING. 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 24
Could you have found WAYFARING?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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