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SHUFTI

/ˈʃʊf.ti/6 letters

Definition of SHUFTI

noun

A brief glance.

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Where it comes from

UK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي (šufti, “have you seen?”, literally “you saw”), a conjugation of شَاف (šāf, “to see”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

SHUFTI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 14 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
37
First board
118
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

birdybird

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start SHUFTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SHUFTISSHUFTIES

Could you have found SHUFTI?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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