The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

OBLIGATOR

9 letters

Definition of OBLIGATOR

noun

One who establishes an obligation under law

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From obligate + -or.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

OBLIGATOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 5 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
29
First board
99
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

runningactor

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OBLIGATOR
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OBLIGATOR starts with O and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABGILOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start OBLIGA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OBLIGATOR?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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