The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

WRITS

5 letters

Definition of WRITS

noun

plural of writ

WRIT

noun

A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Word DNA

WRITS inherits its ancestry from its root, WRIT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,343)

How it is built

noun

Same root, WRIT · 11 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Icelandic, Scots.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

WRITS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 61 boards so far. 209 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 61 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
61
Boards found on
25
First board
160
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

ashmash36

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WRITS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WRITS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read IRSTW - 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 WRITS?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER