The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
LENITY
Definition of LENITY
noun
leniency, mercy, forgiveness
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French lénité, from Latin lēnitās (whence -ity), from lēnis (“soft”).
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.
LENITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LENITY starts with L and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EILNTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found LENITY?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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