The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PEMMICAN
Definition of PEMMICAN
noun
A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Cree ᐱᒦᐦᑳᐣ (pimiihkaan, “pemmican”), from Cree ᐱᒥᕀ (pimiy, “grease, oil, lard”) + -ᐃᐦᑳᐣ (-ihkaan, “hand made”), from Proto-Algonquian *pemyi.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PEMMICAN · 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.
PEMMICAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PEMMICAN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACEIMMNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found PEMMICAN?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER