The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

SURFY

5 letters

Definition of SURFY

adjective

of a shore, having lots of breaking waves

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From surf + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SURFY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 3 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
99
First board
120
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

kwi

on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SURFY
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SURFY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FRSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found SURFY?

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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.

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