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YEASTS
Definition of YEASTS
noun
plural of yeast
noun
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
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Word DNA
YEASTS inherits its ancestry from its root, YEAST.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (976)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, YEAST · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
YEASTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 55 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
YEASTS starts with Y and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AESSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found YEASTS?
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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