SHIFT

Where it comes from

The verb is from Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiftijan, from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), Low German schichten (“to stack, layer”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship. The noun is from Middle English schyft, shyffte. Cognate with Dutch schift (“split, fissure”), German Schicht (“layer, shift”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

SHIFT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

Words that start SHIFT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Also seen on Day 25