The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CUTICLE
Definition of CUTICLE
noun
The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin cutīcula (“cuticle, skin”). Doublet of cuticula.
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.
CUTICLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CUTICLE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CCEILTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Could you have found CUTICLE?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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