The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HABU
Definition of HABU
noun
Any of several venomous snake species of Asia.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Japanese 波布 (habu).
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.
HABU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HABU starts with H and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read ABHU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HABU?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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