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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,908)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WATCH · 7 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.
WATCH in OUTLIER
It has fitted 3 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
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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