The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SHUTOUT
Definition of SHUTOUT
noun
Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Deverbal from shut out.
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.
SHUTOUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHUTOUT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read HOSTTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and T appear more than once.
Could you have found SHUTOUT?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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