The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
DOOMY
Definition of DOOMY
adjective
Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From doom + -y.
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.
DOOMY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOOMY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DMOOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found DOOMY?
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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.
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