The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ALGEBRA
Definition of ALGEBRA
noun
Elementary algebra: A system for representing and manipulating unknown quantities (variables) in equations.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin algebra, from the Arabic الْجَبْر (al-jabr, “reunion, resetting of broken parts”) in the title of al-Khwarizmi's influential work الْكِتَاب الْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب الْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة (al-kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala, “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”).
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 (1,133)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALGEBRA · 2 relatives 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.
ALGEBRA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ALGEBRA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AABEGLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ALGEBR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found ALGEBRA?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER