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WAYFARING

9 letters

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).

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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.

Day 1Day 101
Its 23 boards, across 101 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
24
First board
101
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

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

mahmoud

on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WAYFARING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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.

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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