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

COMPLAIN

/kəmˈpleɪn/8 letters

Definition of COMPLAIN

verb

To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English complaynen, from Old French complaindre, from Medieval Latin complangere (“to bewail, complain”), from Latin com- (“together”) + plangere (“to strike, beat, as the breast in extreme grief, bewail”); see plain, plaint.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

COMPLAIN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 5 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
19
First board
49
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 49, 8 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.

First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.

Built from these letters

COMPLAIN
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start COMPLA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

COMPLAINSCOMPLAINTCOMPLACENTCOMPLAINEDCOMPLAINERCOMPLAINTSCOMPLANATECOMPLACENCECOMPLACENCYCOMPLAINANTCOMPLAINERSCOMPLAINING

Could you have found COMPLAIN?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER

Share COMPLAIN

The OUTLIER card for COMPLAINDownload image