The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

HEISTER

7 letters

Definition of HEISTER

noun

A thief or burglar.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From heist + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Same root, HEIST · 4 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HEISTER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 14 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
45
First board
145
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

dodechotomy

on Day 45, 4 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HEISTER
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HEISTER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEHIRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start HEISTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HEISTER?

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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.

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