The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
MAGOT
Definition of MAGOT
noun
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French magot.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,346)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MAGOT · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MAGOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 55, 14 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MAGOT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AGMOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 55
Could you have found MAGOT?
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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER