The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SLUSH
Definition of SLUSH
noun
Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
May be a variant of sludge or imitative like slosh. Perhaps a confluence of both influences.
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.
SLUSH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 76, 4 August 2026.
Built from these letters
SLUSH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read HLSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
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 SLUSH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SLUSH?
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.
Play today's OUTLIER