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FROSTING
Definition of FROSTING
noun
Icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
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Where it comes from
From frost + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, FROST · 8 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FROSTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FROSTING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read FGINORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FROSTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found FROSTING?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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