The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
YARN
Definition of YARN
noun
A twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English yern, yarn, from the Old English ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰerH- (“tharm, guts, intestines”). Akin to West Frisian jern, Dutch garen (“yarn”), German Garn (“yarn”), Danish garn, Swedish garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Latin hernia (“rupture”), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Sanskrit हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.
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.
YARN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
YARN starts with Y and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ANRY - 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.
Words that start YARN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found YARN?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER