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

FOGOUS

6 letters

Definition of FOGOUS

noun

plural of fogou

FOGOU

noun

A Cornish souterrain, an underground, dry-stone-walled chamber open on two ends.

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Word DNA

FOGOUS inherits its ancestry from its root, FOGOU.

How it is built

noun

Same root, FOGOU · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

FOGOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 4 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
72
First board
163
Latest board
58
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

ugandannah

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FOGOUS
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FOGOUS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read FGOOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Could you have found FOGOUS?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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