The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
OVERTAKE
Definition of OVERTAKE
verb
To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English overtaken, likely a replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + take.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,971)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OVERTAKE · 3 relatives 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.
OVERTAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 59 days.
First found by a player on Day 98, 26 August 2026.
Built from these letters
OVERTAKE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEKORTV - 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 OVERTA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OVERTAKE?
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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER