The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
NEPHROID
Definition of NEPHROID
noun
A plane curve resembling two intersecting ellipses
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From nephro- + -oid, i.e. "kidney-shaped".
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.
NEPHROID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NEPHROID starts with N and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHINOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start NEPHRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NEPHROID?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER