The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ACTIONER
Definition of ACTIONER
noun
An action movie.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From action + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ACTIONER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 40, 29 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 55 days.
First found by a player on Day 3, 24 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ACTIONER starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ACTION
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACTIONER?
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 3 - and most players walked straight past it.
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