The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
POSTDROME
Definition of POSTDROME
noun
The set of symptoms that persist after a condition (typically a migraine) has passed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By analogy with syndrome and prodrome. See post-.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POSTDROME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POSTDROME starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEMOOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start POSTDR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POSTDROME?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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