The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SCAPEGOAT
Definition of SCAPEGOAT
noun
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From scape + goat; coined by English biblical scholar and translator William Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (ez, “goat”) and אוזל (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530. Compare English scapegrace, scapegallows.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Hebrew
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
18th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (171)
branch · 1.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCAPEGOAT · 2 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.
SCAPEGOAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 181 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCAPEGOAT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AACEGOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SCAPEG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found SCAPEGOAT?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER