The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BOVARYSM
Definition of BOVARYSM
noun
An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Named after the character of Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary + -ism.
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.
BOVARYSM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 175, 11 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 175, 11 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOVARYSM starts with B and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ABMORSVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BOVARYSM?
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 175 - and most players walked straight past it.
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