The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
LIGNUM
Definition of LIGNUM
noun
Dead wood, typically in the context of a substrate for lichens.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin lignum (“wood”).
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.
LIGNUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 45, 4 July 2026.
Built from these letters
LIGNUM starts with L and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read GILMNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 45
Could you have found LIGNUM?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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