The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GREENMAILS
Definition of GREENMAILS
noun
plural of greenmail
noun
The profiting from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
GREENMAILS inherits its ancestry from its root, GREENMAIL.
How it is built
Same root, GREENMAIL · 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.
GREENMAILS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 129, 26 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 175, 11 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 175, 11 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GREENMAILS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEGILMNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GREENM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GREENMAILS?
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 129 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER