The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ECOTYPE
Definition of ECOTYPE
noun
A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.
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.
ECOTYPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 125, 22 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 125, 22 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ECOTYPE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEOPTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Could you have found ECOTYPE?
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 125 - and most players walked straight past it.
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