The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FORMULATION
Definition of FORMULATION
noun
The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula. A particular linguistic construction; a turn of phrase.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, FORMULATION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FORMULATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FORMULATION starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AFILMNOORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start FORMULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found FORMULATION?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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