The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ARBOUR
Definition of ARBOUR
noun
UK standard spelling of arbor.
noun
A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English arbere, arber, an alteration of herber, erber (“pleasure garden; herb garden”) influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,595)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ARBOUR · 1 relative 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.
ARBOUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARBOUR starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABORRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Could you have found ARBOUR?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER