The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

ACKEE

/ˈækiː/5 letters

Definition of ACKEE

noun

A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Akan akye.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

ACKEE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 6 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
89
First board
108
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 89, 17 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 89, 17 August 2026.

Built from these letters

ACKEE
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ACKEE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEK - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start ACKEE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ACKEE?

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 89 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER

Share ACKEE

The OUTLIER card for ACKEEDownload image