The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
NOIR
Definition of NOIR
adjective
Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Shortened from film noir, and from French noir. Doublet of negro.
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.
NOIR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 52 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
NOIR starts with N and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read INOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found NOIR?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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