The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PROXEMICS
Definition of PROXEMICS
noun
The study of the effects of the physical distance between people in different cultures and societies.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From prox- (“proximity, nearness”) + -eme + -ic + -s. Clipping of proximity + modeling on phonemics. Coined by American anthropologist Edward T. Hall in 1963.
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.
PROXEMICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROXEMICS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEIMOPRSX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found PROXEMICS?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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