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

UNIFOCAL

8 letters

Definition of UNIFOCAL

adjective

Having a single focus (location)

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From uni- + focal.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompounduni-

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

UNIFOCAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its 5 boards, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
141
First board
164
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

philomorph

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNIFOCAL
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

UNIFOCAL starts with U and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACFILNOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found UNIFOCAL?

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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.

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