The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ABUTILON
Definition of ABUTILON
noun
Any of the various tropical flowering plants of the genus Abutilon, such as the flowering maple, Indian mallow, or Chinese lantern.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From New Latin [Term?], from Arabic أَبُو طِيلُون (ʔabū ṭīlūn, “Indian mallow”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,070)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ABUTILON · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ABUTILON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ABUTILON starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABILNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found ABUTILON?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER