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JOISTING
Definition of JOISTING
verb
present participle and gerund of joist
noun
A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.
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Word DNA
JOISTING inherits its ancestry from its root, JOIST.
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (860)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, JOIST · 2 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.
JOISTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JOISTING starts with J and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIIJNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found JOISTING?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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