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QUIST
Definition of QUIST
noun
The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English cūsċeote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,217)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUIST · 1 relative 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.
QUIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 210 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUIST starts with Q and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read IQSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found QUIST?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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