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DRIFTS

/dɹɪfts/6 letters

Definition of DRIFTS

noun

plural of drift

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DRIFTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 5 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
29
First board
91
Latest board
52
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

rlevey

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DRIFTS
6
Letters
1
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DRIFTS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DFIRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found DRIFTS?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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