The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ACROSPIRES
Definition of ACROSPIRES
noun
plural of acrospire
ACROSPIRE
noun
The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate.
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Word DNA
ACROSPIRES inherits its ancestry from its root, ACROSPIRE.
How it is built
Same root, ACROSPIRE · 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.
ACROSPIRES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACROSPIRES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEIOPRRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and S appear more than once.
Words that start ACROSP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACROSPIRES?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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