The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
UPCOUNTRY
Definition of UPCOUNTRY
adjective
Living or situated remote from the seacoast.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Possibly a calque of French Pays d'en Haut, a designation from 1610 referring to the area of New France west of Montreal. By surface analysis, up + country.
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.
UPCOUNTRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UPCOUNTRY starts with U and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CNOPRTUUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start UPCOUN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found UPCOUNTRY?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER