The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
AUTOGENOUS
Definition of AUTOGENOUS
adjective
Produced independently of an external cause or influence.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From auto- + -genous.
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.
AUTOGENOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUTOGENOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGNOOSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and O appear more than once.
Words that start AUTOGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AUTOGENOUS?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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