The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HOVERCRAFT
Definition of HOVERCRAFT
noun
A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hover + -craft. Originally a trademark by Saunders-Roe Limited, a British aero- and marine-engineering company.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HOVER · 5 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.
HOVERCRAFT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOVERCRAFT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEFHORRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Could you have found HOVERCRAFT?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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