The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

DEPAINT

7 letters

Definition of DEPAINT

verb

To depict.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From de- + paint.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

verbcompoundde-

Same root, DEPAINT · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DEPAINT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its 3 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
72
First board
155
Latest board
71
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

travelgirl

on Day 84, 12 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DEPAINT
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DEPAINT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ADEINPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start DEPAIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DEPAINTSDEPAINTEDDEPAINTING

Could you have found DEPAINT?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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