The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
STEAMING
Definition of STEAMING
noun
The action of steam on something.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, steam + -ing.
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.
STEAMING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 79, 7 August 2026.
Built from these letters
STEAMING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGIMNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start STEAMI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STEAMING?
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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.
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