The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
DELICIOUS
Definition of DELICIOUS
adjective
Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English delicious, from Anglo-Norman delicious, from Old French delicious, delicieux, from Late Latin dēliciōsus (“delicate, delicious”), from dēliciae (“delights”), plural of dēlicia (“pleasure”), from delicere (“to allure, to entice”), from de- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Displaced native Old English ārlīċ (“delicious”).
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.
DELICIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DELICIOUS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEIILOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start DELICI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found DELICIOUS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER