The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SPORICIDE
Definition of SPORICIDE
noun
A substance that kills spores.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From spore + -icide.
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.
SPORICIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPORICIDE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEIIOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start SPORIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPORICIDE?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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