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GHAST
Definition of GHAST
verb
Alternative form of gast.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Variation of gast, from Middle English gasten, from Old English gāstan (“to meditate”) and gǣstan (“to gast, frighten, afflict, torment”). More at gast. Spelling influenced by ghost.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GHAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 192 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 1, 22 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GHAST starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AGHST - 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.
Words that start GHAST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GHAST?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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