The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
DAYS
Definition of DAYS
noun
plural of day
DAY
symbol
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Land Dayak languages.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (970)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DAY · 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.
DAYS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 8 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DAYS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DAYS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DAYS?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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