The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

FROTH

/ˈfɹɒθ/5 letters

Definition of FROTH

noun

Foam.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

FROTH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 112
Its 20 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
7
First board
108
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

FROTH
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FROTH starts with F and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read FHORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start FROTH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FROTHSFROTHYFROTHEDFROTHERFROTHERSFROTHERYFROTHIERFROTHILYFROTHINGFROTHIESTFROTHINGSFROTHLESS

Could you have found FROTH?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER

Share FROTH

The OUTLIER card for FROTHDownload image