The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PROFILERS
Definition of PROFILERS
noun
plural of profiler
PROFILER
noun
A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
PROFILERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PROFILE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PROFILE · 6 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROFILERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROFILERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFILOPRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start PROFIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROFILERS?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER