The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SEDES
Definition of SEDES
noun
The position a word or phrase occupies within the meter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin sēdēs (“seat”). Doublet of see.
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.
SEDES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SEDES starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEESS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and E appear more than once. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.
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 SEDES?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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