The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SCENARY
Definition of SCENARY
noun
Obsolete spelling of scenery.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare Latin scenarius (“belonging to the stage”).
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.
SCENARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 41, 30 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCENARY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACENRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SCENAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found SCENARY?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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