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ZESTFUL

/ˈzɛs(t)f(ʊ)l/7 letters

Definition of ZESTFUL

adjective

Full of zest.

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Where it comes from

From zest + -ful (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by the noun).

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.

ZESTFUL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 4 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
64
First board
107
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 64, 23 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First found by a player on Day 64, 23 July 2026.

Built from these letters

ZESTFUL
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ZESTFUL starts with Z and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EFLSTUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start ZESTFU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ZESTFULLYZESTFULNESSZESTFULNESSES

Could you have found ZESTFUL?

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 64 - and most players walked straight past it.

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