The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
WATCH
Definition of WATCH
noun
A portable or wearable timepiece.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
As a noun, from Middle English wacche, from Old English wæċċe. See below for verb form.
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.
WATCH in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 17, 6 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WATCH starts with W and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ACHTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WATCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WATCH?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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