The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
UPBOW
Definition of UPBOW
noun
A note performed on a string instrument by drawing the bow upward or to the left across the instrument, moving the point of contact from the bow's tip toward the frog.
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Where it comes from
From up + bow.
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.
UPBOW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 92, 20 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UPBOW starts with U and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read BOPUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found UPBOW?
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 92 - and most players walked straight past it.
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