The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BACKFLIP
Definition of BACKFLIP
noun
An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From back- + flip.
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.
BACKFLIP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 66, 25 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BACKFLIP starts with B and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read ABCFIKLP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BACKFL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found BACKFLIP?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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