The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HOMINOID
Definition of HOMINOID
noun
Any anthropoid (including humans and apes) belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin homin- + -oid, after scientific Latin Hominoidea (superfamily name).
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.
HOMINOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOMINOID starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DHIIMNOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and I appear more than once.
Could you have found HOMINOID?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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