The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
LETTER
Definition of LETTER
noun
A symbol in an alphabet.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English letter, lettre, from Old French letre, from Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”). Displaced Old English bōcstæf (literally “book staff”) in sense 1 and ǣrendġewrit (literally “message writing”) in sense 2.
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.
LETTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 106, 3 September 2026.
Built from these letters
LETTER starts with L and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EELRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LETTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LETTER?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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