The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
OUTWATCHING
Definition of OUTWATCHING
verb
present participle and gerund of outwatch
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Word DNA
OUTWATCHING inherits its ancestry from its root, OUTWATCH.
How it is built
Same root, OUTWATCH · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OUTWATCHING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OUTWATCHING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGHINOTTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start OUTWATC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OUTWATCHING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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