The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

CLEWS

5 letters

Definition of CLEWS

noun

plural of clew

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CLEWS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 32 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
34
First board
104
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

billykidd

on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CLEWS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CLEWS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CELSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found CLEWS?

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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