The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
STARTUP
Definition of STARTUP
noun
The act or process of starting a process or machine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Deverbal from start up.
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.
STARTUP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STARTUP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read APRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
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 STARTU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STARTUP?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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