The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
STRIPY
Definition of STRIPY
adjective
Having stripes; striped.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From stripe + -y.
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.
STRIPY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 46, 5 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STRIPY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read IPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 46
Could you have found STRIPY?
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 46 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER