The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ROWLOCK
Definition of ROWLOCK
noun
A usually U-shaped pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
An alteration, based on row, of earlier oarlock, from Old English ārlōc, equivalent to oar + lock.
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.
ROWLOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROWLOCK starts with R and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CKLOORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found ROWLOCK?
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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.
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