The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
JANITORSHIP
Definition of JANITORSHIP
noun
The role or duration of being a janitor.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From janitor + -ship.
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.
JANITORSHIP in OUTLIER
It has fitted 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 18, 7 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 88 days.
Built from these letters
JANITORSHIP starts with J and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AHIIJNOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JANITOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found JANITORSHIP?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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