The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
NAVY
Definition of NAVY
noun
A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”). By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -y. Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,223)
How it is built
Same root, NAVY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Old English, Persian, Sanskrit.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NAVY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 46 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
NAVY starts with N and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ANVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found NAVY?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER