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

HELIDECK

8 letters

Definition of HELIDECK

noun

A platform (on a vessel or offshore structure) allowing helicopters to land and take off.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From heli- + deck.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompoundheli-

Same root, HELIDECK · 1 relative 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.

HELIDECK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 2 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
137
First board
158
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First found by a player on Day 137, 4 October 2026.

Built from these letters

HELIDECK
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start HELIDE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HELIDECK?

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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.

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