The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HORSEPOND
Definition of HORSEPOND
noun
A pond, or part of a river, for watering and cleaning horses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From horse + pond.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HORSEPOND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HORSEPOND starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHNOOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start HORSEP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HORSEPOND?
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