The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HOTLINK
Definition of HOTLINK
noun
A direct embedding of, or a hyperlink to, a resource on another server, particularly images or video.
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Where it comes from
From hot + link.
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.
HOTLINK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 89, 17 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOTLINK starts with H and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read HIKLNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HOTLIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOTLINK?
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 89 - and most players walked straight past it.
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