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SOFT
Definition of SOFT
adjective
Easily giving way under pressure.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.
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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.
SOFT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SOFT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read FOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SOFT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found SOFT?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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