The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SUBGRADE
Definition of SUBGRADE
noun
The layer of native soil on which the foundation of a road is laid.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sub- + grade.
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.
SUBGRADE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 54 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 66, 25 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SUBGRADE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABDEGRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SUBGRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SUBGRADE?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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