The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PENCHANTS
Definition of PENCHANTS
noun
plural of penchant
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
PENCHANTS inherits its ancestry from its root, PENCHANT.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Middle French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PENCHANT · 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.
PENCHANTS 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 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 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
PENCHANTS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHNNPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Could you have found PENCHANTS?
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