The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
JIVY
Definition of JIVY
adjective
Characteristic of jive music.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From jive + -y.
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.
JIVY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JIVY starts with J and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read IJVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found JIVY?
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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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