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WHARFINGER
Definition of WHARFINGER
noun
The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English wharfager (“keeper of a wharf”) (modified in the same way as messenger from Middle English messager, passenger from Middle English passager, etc.), from wharfage (“use of a wharf; payment for such use”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, especially names of persons engaged in professions or trades). Wharfage is probably derived from Medieval Latin wharfāgium, or from Middle English wharf (“structure projecting into a body of water for ships to moor and load or unload, pier, quay, wharf”) + -age (suffix forming nouns denoting actions, states, etc.). By surface analysis, wharfage + -er.
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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.
WHARFINGER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WHARFINGER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEFGHINRRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start WHARFI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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