The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PLISSE
Definition of PLISSE
noun
A fabric treated so as to be permanently puckered or crinkled.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French plissé.
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.
PLISSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PLISSE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EILPSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PLISSE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PLISSE?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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