The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
UMBROSE
Definition of UMBROSE
adjective
Shady; umbrageous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin umbrōsus, from umbra (“a shade”).
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.
UMBROSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 53, 12 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 58, 17 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UMBROSE starts with U and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEMORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 53
Could you have found UMBROSE?
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 53 - and most players walked straight past it.
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