The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ROASTINGS
Definition of ROASTINGS
noun
plural of roasting
ROAST · via roasting
verb
To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
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Word DNA
ROASTINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, ROAST.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,180)
How it is built
Same root, ROAST · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Old English.
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.
ROASTINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROASTINGS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGINORSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ROASTINGS?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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