The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
RECAPTION
Definition of RECAPTION
noun
The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From re- + caption.
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.
RECAPTION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 66, 25 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RECAPTION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACEINOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start RECAPT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RECAPTION?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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