The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FIRSTBORN
Definition of FIRSTBORN
noun
The first child to be born to a parent or family.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English first borne. By surface analysis, first (adverb) + born.
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.
FIRSTBORN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FIRSTBORN starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read BFINORRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start FIRSTB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FIRSTBORN?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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