The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PILOSE
Definition of PILOSE
adjective
Covered with fine hair.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin pilōsus, from pilus (“hair”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PILOSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PILOSE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EILOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found PILOSE?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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