The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SWIFTLY
Definition of SWIFTLY
adverb
In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English swiftly, swyftely, swiftliche, from Old English swiftlīċe (“swiftly”), equivalent to swift + -ly.
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.
SWIFTLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SWIFTLY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FILSTWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SWIFTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SWIFTLY?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER