The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SCOPATE
Definition of SCOPATE
adjective
Having a scopa (tuft of hairs on the surface)
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Latin scopa (“a broom”).
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.
SCOPATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCOPATE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found SCOPATE?
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 92 - and most players walked straight past it.
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