The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
WANED
Definition of WANED
verb
simple past and past participle of wane
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.
WANED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WANED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADENW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found WANED?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER