The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PIXELATION
Definition of PIXELATION
noun
A blocky effect caused by enlarging a bitmap so that individual pixels can be distinguished.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pixel + -ation.
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.
PIXELATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PIXELATION starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEIILNOPTX - 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.
Words that start PIXELA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found PIXELATION?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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