The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

APRONLIKE

9 letters

Definition of APRONLIKE

adjective

Resembling an apron.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From apron + -like.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-like

Same root, APRON · 4 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

APRONLIKE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its 4 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
74
First board
155
Latest board
53
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

greenwithivyPATRON

on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

APRONLIKE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

APRONLIKE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIKLNOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found APRONLIKE?

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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.

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