The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BANNS
Definition of BANNS
noun
The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).
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Where it comes from
An alteration of bans.
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.
BANNS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 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
BANNS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABNNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found BANNS?
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.
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