The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HAKU
Definition of HAKU
noun
A three-ply braid incorporating additional materials, used in making lei.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Hawaiian haku (“to braid a lei”).
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.
HAKU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAKU starts with H and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AHKU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HAKU?
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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.
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