The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
UPDATE
Definition of UPDATE
noun
An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From up- + date. Earliest usages from 1940s (see Citations).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, UPDATE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UPDATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UPDATE starts with U and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start UPDATE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found UPDATE?
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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.
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