The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SPADEFUL
Definition of SPADEFUL
noun
The amount held or moved by a spade at once.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From spade + -ful.
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.
SPADEFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPADEFUL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADEFLPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SPADEF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPADEFUL?
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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.
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