The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ROAST
Definition of ROAST
verb
To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”). Displaced native Middle English breden, bræden (“to roast”), from Old English brǣdan, related to German braten (“to roast, grill”). The noun is from Middle English roste, from Old French rost, roste, from the verb.
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.
ROAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ROAST starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ROAST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found ROAST?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER