The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PEGBOX
Definition of PEGBOX
noun
The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From peg + box.
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.
PEGBOX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PEGBOX starts with P and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read BEGOPX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found PEGBOX?
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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.
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