The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TAKES
Definition of TAKES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of take
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
TAKES inherits its ancestry from its root, TAKE.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,585)
How it is built
Same root, TAKE · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Middle Low German, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAKES in OUTLIER
It has fitted 30 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TAKES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEKST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found TAKES?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER