The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
OILSKIN
Definition of OILSKIN
noun
Cloth made from cotton and treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From oil + skin.
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.
OILSKIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 43 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OILSKIN starts with O and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read IIKLNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start OILSKI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 59
Could you have found OILSKIN?
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 59 - and most players walked straight past it.
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