The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TONY
Definition of TONY
adjective
Stylish, high-toned, upscale.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From tone + -y.
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.
TONY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TONY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read NOTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 TONY?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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