The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
WATCHOUT
Definition of WATCHOUT
noun
A lookout; a person who stands guard watching for something.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Deverbal from watch out.
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.
WATCHOUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WATCHOUT starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACHOTTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
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 WATCHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WATCHOUT?
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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