The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
MOTTE
Definition of MOTTE
noun
A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French motte, from Anglo-Norman/Old French motte (“mound, hillock”). Doublet of moat.
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.
MOTTE 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 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MOTTE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EMOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found MOTTE?
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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