The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SINGLE
Definition of SINGLE
adjective
Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,608)
How it is built
Same root, SINGLE · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SINGLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SINGLE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGILNS - 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.
Words that start SINGLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SINGLE?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER