The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HEADCOUNT
Definition of HEADCOUNT
noun
The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From head + count.
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.
HEADCOUNT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEADCOUNT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found HEADCOUNT?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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