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

DORSA

/ˈdɔː.sə/5 letters

Definition of DORSA

noun

plural of dorsum

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

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.

DORSA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 100
Its 4 boards, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
88
First board
100
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

christine

on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DORSA
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DORSA starts with D and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ADORS - 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 DORSA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DORSADDORSALDORSALSDORSALLY

Could you have found DORSA?

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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER

Share DORSA

The OUTLIER card for DORSADownload image