The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
DELIRIOUS
Definition of DELIRIOUS
adjective
Being in the state of delirium.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From delirium + -ous; see also Latin delirus (“silly, doting, crazy”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DELIRIUM · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DELIRIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 143 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DELIRIOUS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEIILORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start DELIRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found DELIRIOUS?
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