The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PINXIT
Definition of PINXIT
noun
An inscription indicating the identity of the one who created a painting.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the appearance of the Latin word pinxit (“he/she painted (this)”), perfect indicative third-person singular of pingo (“to paint”), after a painter's name on a painting.
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.
PINXIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PINXIT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read IINPTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found PINXIT?
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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.
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