The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
OROGENESIS
Definition of OROGENESIS
noun
The process of mountain formation by deformation of the Earth's crust.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From oro- (“mountain”) + -genesis.
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.
OROGENESIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OROGENESIS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGINOORSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, E and S appear more than once.
Words that start OROGEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OROGENESIS?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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