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LEISTER
Definition of LEISTER
noun
A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish, particularly salmon.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From earlier leyster, lister, perhaps via Middle English *lēster, *līster, from Old Norse ljóstr (“leister”), from ljósta (“to smite, strike; to hit, strike (with an arrow or spear)”), from Proto-Germanic *leustaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s- (“to loosen (by knocking)”); the word is cognate with Danish lyster (“fish spear, gig, leister”), Icelandic ljósta (“to hit, strike”), Norwegian Bokmål lyster (dialectal Norwegian lioster), Swedish ljuster.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
8 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
28th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (247)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LEIST · 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.
LEISTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LEISTER starts with L and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEILRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 LEISTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found LEISTER?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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