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SWIFTEST

8 letters

Definition of SWIFTEST

adjective

superlative form of swift: most swift

SWIFT

adjective

Fast; quick; rapid.

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Word DNA

SWIFTEST inherits its ancestry from its root, SWIFT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  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 (11,575)

How it is built

adjective

Same root, SWIFT · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Icelandic.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

SWIFTEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its one board, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
73
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 73 days.

First ever to find it

faolan

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SWIFTEST
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SWIFTEST starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EFISSTTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and T appear more than once.

Words that start SWIFTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SWIFTEST?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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