The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SMARMY
Definition of SMARMY
adjective
Falsely earnest, smug, ingratiating, or pious.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From smarm + -y. Apparently coined by "B.R.L., of Brighton" with sense "saying treacly things which do not sound genuine" in a competition for neologisms in The Academy (London) published on 14 January 1899.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SMARMY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 182 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SMARMY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AMMRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once.
Could you have found SMARMY?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER