The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TABLEAU
Definition of TABLEAU
noun
A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French tableau, from Old French tablel (“a surface which is used primarily for painting”).
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.
TABLEAU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TABLEAU starts with T and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AABELTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found TABLEAU?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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