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RAFT
Definition of RAFT
noun
A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
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Where it comes from
Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RAFT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
RAFT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AFRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 RAFT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found RAFT?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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