The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PACKER
Definition of PACKER
noun
A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pakker, pakkere, packare, equivalent to pack + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.1%
of traced words share this origin (4,779)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PACK · 12 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.
PACKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 45 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PACKER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEKPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found PACKER?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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