The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SCROBE
Definition of SCROBE
noun
A trench.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin scrobis (“ditch, dike, trench”).
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.
SCROBE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
Built from these letters
SCROBE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCEORS - 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 SCROBE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCROBE?
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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.
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