The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
WITAN
Definition of WITAN
noun
The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Old English witan, plural of wita (“wise man”).
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.
WITAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
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Built from these letters
WITAN starts with W and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AINTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found WITAN?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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