The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TAXIS
Definition of TAXIS
noun
The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement, order”).
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.
TAXIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAXIS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AISTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found TAXIS?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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