The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ALSIKE
Definition of ALSIKE
noun
Trifolium hybridum, a species of clover with pinkish or white flowers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Alsike, Sweden.
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.
ALSIKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 102, 30 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALSIKE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIKLS - 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.
Words that start ALSIKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALSIKE?
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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.
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