The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CLARIONS
Definition of CLARIONS
noun
plural of clarion
noun
A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
CLARIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, CLARION.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,614)
How it is built
Same root, CLARION · 2 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLARIONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CLARIONS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACILNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CLARIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found CLARIONS?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER