The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

TRUGS

5 letters

Definition of TRUGS

noun

plural of trug

TRUG

noun

A shallow, oval basket used for gardening

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Word DNA

TRUGS inherits its ancestry from its root, TRUG.

How it is built

noun

Same root, TRUG · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TRUGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 21 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
44
First board
157
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

teapotrabbits

on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TRUGS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TRUGS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found TRUGS?

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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.

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