The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SKELTER
Definition of SKELTER
noun
A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare helter-skelter.
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.
SKELTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SKELTER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEKLRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 SKELTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SKELTER?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER