The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ONTO
Definition of ONTO
preposition
Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”).
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.
ONTO in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 53, 12 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ONTO starts with O and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read NOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ONTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ONTO?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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