The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GLOBIN
Definition of GLOBIN
noun
Any globular protein that incorporates a globin fold.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Globin, from Latin globus.
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.
GLOBIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 74, 2 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GLOBIN starts with G and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read BGILNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found GLOBIN?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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