The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

INTERSEX

/ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/8 letters

Definition of INTERSEX

adjective

Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Intersexe. By surface analysis, inter- + sex. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Needs more details, especially the German etymology.”) Doublet of intersect.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

INTERSEX in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 9 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
32
First board
97
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

jay

on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

INTERSEX
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INTERSEX starts with I and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read EEINRSTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start INTERS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INTERSINTERSECTINTERSERTINTERSECTSINTERSERTSINTERSEXESINTERSPACEINTERSTAGEINTERSTATEINTERSTICEINTERSCHOOLINTERSCRIBE

Could you have found INTERSEX?

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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER

Share INTERSEX