The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ANIMACY
Definition of ANIMACY
noun
The state of being animate (alive or supernaturally seeming alive).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From animate + -cy.
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.
ANIMACY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANIMACY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACIMNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found ANIMACY?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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