The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SOLANUM
Definition of SOLANUM
noun
Any plant in the genus Solanum.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Translingual Solanum.
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.
SOLANUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SOLANUM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ALMNOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SOLANU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found SOLANUM?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER