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GRIFT
Definition of GRIFT
noun
A confidence game or swindle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft (“corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one's occupation”), alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift, etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (“digging, ditch, canal, trench”) (modern Dutch gracht), related to Dutch graven (“to dig”), English grave (“to dig”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
19th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (449)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GRIFT · 5 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.
GRIFT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 70 boards so far. 210 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GRIFT starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read FGIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GRIFT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found GRIFT?
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.
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