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GRIFTED
Definition of GRIFTED
verb
simple past and past participle of grift
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Another sense
GRIFTED carries a second meaning.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of grift.
Word DNA
GRIFTED inherits its ancestry from its root, GRIFT.
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 (460)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GRIFT · 5 relatives in the game
GRIFTED in a sentence
“Awww, poor Stupid242, he looks at the piles of money grifted from the working class and calls that “earned.””
Matthew Yglesias » Is VAT an Idea Whose Time Has Passed?, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRIFTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 77 boards so far. 298 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GRIFTED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEFGIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found GRIFTED?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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