The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HORNIST
Definition of HORNIST
noun
Someone who plays the horn (any of several kinds of musical instruments).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From horn + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HORN · 9 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.
HORNIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
HORNIST starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read HINORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HORNIST?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER