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GRIFTS
Definition of GRIFTS
noun
plural of grift
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Other senses
GRIFTS carries 2 further meanings.
noun
Plural form of grift.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grift.
Word DNA
GRIFTS inherits its ancestry from its root, GRIFT.
Line of descent
- Middle Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
26th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (109)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GRIFT · 4 relatives in the game
GRIFTS in a sentence
“I've always been obsessed with the actual mechanics of grifts, so I actually ate up the whole roaming conman middle section.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRIFTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 106 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GRIFTS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read FGIRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found GRIFTS?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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