The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FORMATION
Definition of FORMATION
noun
The act of assembling a group or structure.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English formacioun, formation, borrowed from Old French formacion, from Latin fōrmātiō, from fōrmō (“form”, verb); see form as verb. Morphologically form + -ation.
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.
FORMATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FORMATION starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AFIMNOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start FORMAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found FORMATION?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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