The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HEATING
Definition of HEATING
noun
A system that raises the temperature of a room or building. Compare heater.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From heat + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HEAT · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 41 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
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Built from these letters
HEATING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGHINT - 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 HEATING?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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