The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HEADSTAY
Definition of HEADSTAY
noun
Synonym of forestay.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From head + stay.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEADSTAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 135, 2 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEADSTAY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AADEHSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start HEADST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEADSTAY?
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 135 - and most players walked straight past it.
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