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FOISTING

/ˈfɔɪstɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of FOISTING

verb

present participle and gerund of foist

FOIST

verb

To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

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Other senses

FOISTING carries 3 further meanings.

  1. noun

    The act of using foists or tricking.

  2. noun

    Pocket-picking.

  3. verb

    Present participle of foist.

Word DNA

FOISTING inherits its ancestry from its root, FOIST.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle Dutch
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.1%

of traced words share this origin (1,232)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb2 syllables

Same root, FOIST · 4 relatives in the game

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

FOISTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 91 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 42 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
42
Boards found on
30
First board
147
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

ayakattackSUPPORTER

on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FOISTING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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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