The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ORACY
Definition of ORACY
noun
The ability to speak, and to understand spoken language
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From oral + -cy, by analogy with literacy. Coined by the British education researcher Andrew Wilkinson in 1965.
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.
ORACY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ORACY starts with O and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACORY - 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.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found ORACY?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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