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FOISTING
Definition of FOISTING
verb
present participle and gerund of foist
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Other senses
FOISTING carries 3 further meanings.
noun
The act of using foists or tricking.
noun
Pocket-picking.
verb
Present participle of foist.
Word DNA
FOISTING inherits its ancestry from its root, FOIST.
Line of descent
- Middle Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
19th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (460)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FOIST · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOISTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 98 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FOISTING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read FGIINOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found FOISTING?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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