The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GLIM
Definition of GLIM
noun
Brightness; splendour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,506)
How it is built
Same root, GLIM · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Norwegian, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLIM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GLIM starts with G and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read GILM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GLIM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found GLIM?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER