The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
MENDS
Definition of MENDS
noun
Synonym of amends. Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially from sin.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mend (noun, verb) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
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.
MENDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MENDS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEMNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found MENDS?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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