The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COUNTERSPY
Definition of COUNTERSPY
noun
A spy working in counterintelligence.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From counter- + spy.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COUNTERSPY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COUNTERSPY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 53, 12 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUNTERSPY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CENOPRSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COUNTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 53
Could you have found COUNTERSPY?
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 53 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER