The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
NOCTILUCOUS
Definition of NOCTILUCOUS
adjective
Shining in the night or darkness; luminescent.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from New Latin noctilūcus.
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.
NOCTILUCOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NOCTILUCOUS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CCILNOOSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, C and U appear more than once.
Words that start NOCTILU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NOCTILUCOUS?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER