The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
YOOF
Definition of YOOF
noun
youth (young person, young people or the state of being young)
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Respelling of youth to correspond with a nonstandard pronunciation; th-fronting, in particular.
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.
YOOF in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 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
YOOF starts with Y and ends with F. Sorted, its letters read FOOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
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 YOOF?
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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