The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
OBFUSCATION
Definition of OBFUSCATION
noun
The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. The alteration of computer code to preserve its behavior while concealing its structure and intent.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English obfuscacioun, from Latin obfuscātiō, obfuscātiōnem, from obfuscāre (“to darken”), from ob (“over”) + fuscāre (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OBFUSCATION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OBFUSCATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 159 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
OBFUSCATION starts with O and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABCFINOOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start OBFUSCA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found OBFUSCATION?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER