The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
RAVELLING
Definition of RAVELLING
noun
gerund of ravel A tangled mess; a decomposition. In the APL programming language: the act of reshaping a variable into a vector.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From ravel + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, RAVEL · 5 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.
RAVELLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First found by a player on Day 137, 4 October 2026.
Built from these letters
RAVELLING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGILLNRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start RAVELL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RAVELLING?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER