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WHEFT

/wɛft/5 letters

Definition of WHEFT

noun

A waft (flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal)

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Possibly a blend of waft (“breeze, indicative flag”) + Middle English wef (“odour, stench”), itself likely derived from weven (“to move about”) or a variant of wayf; compare wek, variant of weyk (“weak”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

WHEFT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 13 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
24
First board
102
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

kmg1493

on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WHEFT
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WHEFT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WHEFT?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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