The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GENRE
Definition of GENRE
noun
A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.
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.
GENRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 85, 13 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 85, 13 August 2026.
Built from these letters
GENRE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEGNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found GENRE?
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 85 - and most players walked straight past it.
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