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SOFTING
Definition of SOFTING
Wiktionary has no entry for SOFTING itself. This is its base word, SOFT.
adjective
Easily giving way under pressure.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for SOFT.
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.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SOFTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 60, 19 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 62 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 60, 19 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOFTING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read FGINOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 60
Could you have found SOFTING?
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 60 - and most players walked straight past it.
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