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SPOONDRIFT
Definition of SPOONDRIFT
noun
Alternative form of spindrift.
noun
Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.
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Where it comes from
Probably a variant of Scots spindrift. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is derived from spoon + drift (“mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water”), spoon being a variant of spoom (“to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted”), but this is doubted by the Scottish National Dictionary: see spindrift.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Scots
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
22nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (130)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPOONDRIFT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPOONDRIFT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DFINOOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SPOOND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found SPOONDRIFT?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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