The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CALAMITOUS
Definition of CALAMITOUS
adjective
Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French calamiteux (“calamitous”) (see French -eux, English -ous), from Latin calamitōsus (“destructive, disastrous, ruinous, calamitous”), a contraction of calamitātōsus, from calamitāt- + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns); calamitāt- is the oblique stem of calamitās (“disaster, misfortune, calamity; damage, harm; loss”), from *calamis (“damaged”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”)) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, calamity + -ous.
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.
CALAMITOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 131 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CALAMITOUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACILMOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CALAMI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found CALAMITOUS?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER