The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BENEDICT
Definition of BENEDICT
noun
A newly married man, especially one who was previously a confirmed bachelor.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Benedicke (normalized to the usual spelling, Benedict), a character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1598).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BENEDICT · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BENEDICT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 56 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BENEDICT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BCDEEINT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start BENEDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found BENEDICT?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER