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SKILIFT

7 letters

Definition of SKILIFT

noun

Alternative form of ski lift.

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Word DNA

SKILIFT inherits its ancestry from its root, SKI.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old Norse
  4. Norwegian
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,153)

How it is built

noun

Same root, SKI · 10 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

Every Proto-Indo-European 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.

SKILIFT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 174
Its 5 boards, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
155
First board
171
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

monkeymolar

on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SKILIFT
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SKILIFT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read FIIKLST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Could you have found SKILIFT?

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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.

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