The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ROCKAWAY
Definition of ROCKAWAY
noun
A light, low, four-wheeled carriage with standing top, open at the sides, but with waterproof curtains for bad weather.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably from Rockaway Beach, where they were used. From the Unami lekawe (“sandy place”) or a Munsee cognate of that word.
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.
ROCKAWAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 122, 19 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROCKAWAY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACKORWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ROCKAW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROCKAWAY?
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 122 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER