The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ATHERMANCY
Definition of ATHERMANCY
noun
Inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat; the quality of being a good insulator.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
See athermanous.
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.
ATHERMANCY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 102, 30 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ATHERMANCY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACEHMNRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found ATHERMANCY?
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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.
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