The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
RHIZOID
Definition of RHIZOID
noun
A rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rhiz- + -oid.
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.
RHIZOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 52 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RHIZOID starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DHIIORZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found RHIZOID?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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