The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
RADAR
Definition of RADAR
noun
In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The noun is derived from RADAR by anacronymic evolution. RADAR is an acronym of ra(dio) d(etection) a(nd) r(anging) which was coined by Lieutenant-Commander Samuel M. Tucker and Lieutenant-Commander F. R. Furth of the United States Navy in November 1940. The verb is probably derived from the noun.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, RADAR · 1 relative 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.
RADAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 127, 24 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RADAR starts with R and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AADRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and A appear more than once. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.
Words that start RADAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RADAR?
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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER