The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
QUIRE
Definition of QUIRE
noun
One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English quayer, from Anglo-Norman quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”). Doublet of cahier.
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.
QUIRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 141 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUIRE starts with Q and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIQRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found QUIRE?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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