The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BURNOUT
Definition of BURNOUT
noun
The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Deverbal from burn out.
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.
BURNOUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
BURNOUT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BNORTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BURNOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found BURNOUT?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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