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FROTS

5 letters

Definition of FROTS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of frot

FROT

verb

To rub one's penis against another person's penis for sexual gratification.

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Word DNA

FROTS inherits its ancestry from its root, FROT.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (834)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, FROT · 1 relative in the game

FROT

Its etymology also names Polish.

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

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.

FROTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its 3 boards, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
140
First board
142
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

fribble

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found FROTS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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