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WAYFARING
Definition of WAYFARING
adjective
Travelling, especially on foot.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
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).
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 23 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
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 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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