The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
IMPOSING
Definition of IMPOSING
verb
present participle and gerund of impose
verb
To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set. To lay or place (one's hands) on someone as a blessing, during rites of confirmation, ordination, etc. To lay (columns or pages of type, or printing plates) arranged in a proper order on the bed of a press or an imposing stone and secure them in a chase in preparation for printing. To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see verb sense 1.2.2) with authority.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
IMPOSING inherits its ancestry from its root, IMPOSE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,408)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, IMPOSE · 4 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.
IMPOSING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
IMPOSING starts with I and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIIMNOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start IMPOSI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found IMPOSING?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER