The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

GUIDEWORDS

10 letters

Definition of GUIDEWORDS

noun

plural of guideword

GUIDEWORD

noun

A word or phrase that serves as one's guide.

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Word DNA

GUIDEWORDS inherits its ancestry from its root, GUIDEWORD.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, GUIDEWORD · 1 relative in the game

GUIDEWORD

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GUIDEWORDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its one board, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
31
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.

First ever to find it

zenottrPATRON

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GUIDEWORDS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GUIDEWORDS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DDEGIORSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.

Words that start GUIDEW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GUIDEWORDS?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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