The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TENUIOUS
Definition of TENUIOUS
adjective
Rare or subtle; tenuous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous.
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.
TENUIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 98, 26 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TENUIOUS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EINOSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Could you have found TENUIOUS?
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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.
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