The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
POPULAR
Definition of POPULAR
adjective
Common among the general public; generally accepted.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English populer, borrowed from Old French populaire, or borrowed from Latin populāris.
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.
POPULAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POPULAR starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ALOPPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once.
Words that start POPULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POPULAR?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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