The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HOUNDY
Definition of HOUNDY
adjective
Like, resembling, or characteristic of a hound; houndlike.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hound + -y.
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.
HOUNDY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
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
HOUNDY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DHNOUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HOUNDY?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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