The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PROFITS
Definition of PROFITS
noun
plural of profit
noun
Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
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Word DNA
PROFITS inherits its ancestry from its root, PROFIT.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,487)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PROFIT · 4 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.
PROFITS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROFITS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read FIOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PROFIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found PROFITS?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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