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RAFTINGS
Definition of RAFTINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for RAFTINGS itself. This is its base word, 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
The origin recorded for RAFT.
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.8%
of traced words share this origin (2,662)
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Norwegian.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RAFTINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 127, 24 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RAFTINGS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFGINRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found RAFTINGS?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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