The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
UPSTROKE
Definition of UPSTROKE
noun
The upward stroke of a pen, brush, piston, etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From up + stroke.
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.
UPSTROKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 115, 12 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UPSTROKE starts with U and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EKOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start UPSTRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found UPSTROKE?
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 115 - and most players walked straight past it.
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