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

OPHITES

7 letters

Definition of OPHITES

noun

plural of ophite

OPHITE

noun

Any of various rocks having snake-like markings, such as a mottled greenish porphyry.

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Word DNA

OPHITES inherits its ancestry from its root, OPHITE.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.4%

of traced words share this origin (10,337)

Hellenic

branch · 12.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, OPHITE · 2 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

OPHITES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 15 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
54
First board
168
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

lena

on Day 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OPHITES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OPHITES starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHIOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start OPHITE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OPHITES?

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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.

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