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SKIFFS

6 letters

Definition of SKIFFS

noun

plural of skiff

SKIFF

noun

A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.

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Word DNA

SKIFFS inherits its ancestry from its root, SKIFF.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Italian
  3. Middle French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,958)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SKIFF · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SKIFFS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
18
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

moonlight9889

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SKIFFS
6
Letters
1
Vowels
5
Consonants
4
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SKIFFS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read FFIKSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and F appear more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found SKIFFS?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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