The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ETIC
Definition of ETIC
adjective
Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside that culture.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonetic.
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.
ETIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ETIC starts with E and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEIT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found ETIC?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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