The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
NEFAST
Definition of NEFAST
adjective
wicked (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin nefastus (“irreligious, inauspicious”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NEFAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NEFAST starts with N and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEFNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 50
Could you have found NEFAST?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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