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WAFTINGS

8 letters

Definition of WAFTINGS

noun

plural of wafting

WAFT · via wafting

verb

To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

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.

WAFTINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 62 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 37 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
37
Boards found on
29
First board
150
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

lalabeth

on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WAFTINGS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WAFTINGS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFGINSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start WAFTIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WAFTINGS?

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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