The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ORTHOGENESIS
Definition of ORTHOGENESIS
noun
The hypothesis that evolution tends toward a certain goal, at least at some scales.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From ortho- + -genesis, coined by Wilhelm Haacke in 1893 and popularized with its standard meaning by Theodor Eimer.
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.
ORTHOGENESIS 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
ORTHOGENESIS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGHINOORSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, E and S appear more than once.
Words that start ORTHOGEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ORTHOGENESIS?
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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