The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SOULING
Definition of SOULING
noun
The practice of giving and receiving soul cakes on All Souls Day
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From soul + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SOUL · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SOULING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOULING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GILNOSU - 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.
Could you have found SOULING?
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 142 - and most players walked straight past it.
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