The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

SALIFY

6 letters

Definition of SALIFY

verb

To react so as to form a salt

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From French salifier; from Latin sal (“salt”) + -ficare (“to make”) (only in comparative). See -fy.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,450)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-ficare-fy

Same root, SALIFY · 2 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SALIFY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 178
Its 9 boards, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
78
First board
173
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

reinventednight

on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

SALIFY
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SALIFY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFILSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start SALIFY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SALIFY?

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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER