The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
OVERNEW
Definition of OVERNEW
adjective
Very new.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From over- + new. Piecewise doublet of supernova.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OVERNEW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OVERNEW starts with O and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read EENORVW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 OVERNE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OVERNEW?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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