The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TACHINA
Definition of TACHINA
noun
Any of the genus Tachina of large tachinid flies, mostly parasitoids on lepidopteran caterpillars.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the genus name.
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.
TACHINA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 102, 30 August 2026.
Built from these letters
TACHINA starts with T and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACHINT - 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 TACHINA?
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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER