The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FRUGALIST
Definition of FRUGALIST
noun
A person who acts or lives frugally.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From frugal + -ist. Piecewise doublet of frugalista.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FRUGALIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FRUGALIST starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AFGILRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FRUGAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found FRUGALIST?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER