The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GUILE
Definition of GUILE
noun
Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
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.
GUILE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 57 boards so far. 166 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 4, 25 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GUILE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGILU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GUILE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 4
Could you have found GUILE?
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 4 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER