The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COMPENSATOR
Definition of COMPENSATOR
noun
A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From compensate + -or.
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.
COMPENSATOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 49, 8 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMPENSATOR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEMNOOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COMPENS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMPENSATOR?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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