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ADRIFT

/əˈdɹɪft/6 letters

Definition of ADRIFT

adjective

Floating at random.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From a- + drift.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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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.

ADRIFT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 50 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 121
Its 21 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
28
First board
120
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

ADRIFT
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ADRIFT starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ADFIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found ADRIFT?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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