The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
POSSE
Definition of POSSE
noun
A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Ellipsis of posse comitatus.
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.
POSSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 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
POSSE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EOPSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start POSSE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POSSE?
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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