The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ARCHERFISH
Definition of ARCHERFISH
noun
Any member of the species in the family Toxotidae (principally genus Toxotes) of fish who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them with water from their mouths.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From archer + fish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ARCHERFISH 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 7 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
ARCHERFISH starts with A and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ACEFHHIRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and H appear more than once.
Words that start ARCHER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ARCHERFISH?
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