The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ANGLERFISH
Definition of ANGLERFISH
noun
Any fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes, which have an outgrowth they wiggle to lure and catch their prey.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
ANGLERFISH carries 3 further meanings.
noun
Any of various marine fishes of the order Lophiiformes, having a long dorsal fin ray that is suspended over the mouth and serves as a lure to attract prey.
noun
Any fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes. These fish use an outgrowth that can be wiggled so as to resemble a prey animal to lure and catch their prey.
noun
fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
Where it comes from
From angler + fish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ANGLERFISH · 1 relative in the game
ANGLERFISH in a sentence
“Name an ingredient, from anglerfish to zucchini, and it probably begins with a seed.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANGLERFISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 99 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANGLERFISH starts with A and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AEFGHILNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of ANGLERFISH. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start ANGLER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found ANGLERFISH?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER