The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PUBLISHED
Definition of PUBLISHED
verb
simple past and past participle of publish
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
PUBLISHED inherits its ancestry from its root, PUBLISH.
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 (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PUBLISH · 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.
PUBLISHED in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 66 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PUBLISHED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEHILPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PUBLIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PUBLISHED?
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.
Play today's OUTLIER