The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
STIFLED
Definition of STIFLED
adjective
That has been interrupted, suppressed etc
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
STIFLED inherits its ancestry from its root, STIFLE.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (209)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, STIFLE · 3 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.
STIFLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.
Built from these letters
STIFLED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEFILST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start STIFLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found STIFLED?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER