The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TALISMANS
Definition of TALISMANS
noun
plural of talisman
noun
A magical object providing protection against ill will, or the supernatural, or conferring the wearer with a boon such as good luck, good health, or certain powers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
TALISMANS inherits its ancestry from its root, TALISMAN.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Arabic
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.3%
of traced words share this origin (10,575)
branch · 12.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TALISMAN · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TALISMANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TALISMANS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAILMNSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and S appear more than once.
Words that start TALISM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TALISMANS?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER