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EFTEST
Definition of EFTEST
adjective
Quickest or most convenient.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The word is used by Dogberry in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (and may be a deliberate error, since Dogberry frequently uses malapropisms). Other writers have used the word in direct allusion to Shakespeare's use. Compare eftsoons and see -est.
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.
EFTEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EFTEST starts with E and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EEFSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Could you have found EFTEST?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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