The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
YEARDS
Definition of YEARDS
noun
plural of yeard
YARD · via yeard
noun
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, YEARD · 2 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.
YEARDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 66 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
YEARDS starts with Y and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADERSY - 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 YEARDS?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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