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

ZERIBAS

7 letters

Definition of ZERIBAS

noun

plural of zeriba

ZERIBA

noun

A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Word DNA

ZERIBAS inherits its ancestry from its root, ZERIBA.

Line of descent

  1. Arabic
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Arabic

Deepest traced root

11th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.4%

of traced words share this origin (1,086)

Semitic

branch · 2.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, ZERIBA · 9 relatives in the game

Every Arabic 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.

ZERIBAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its one board, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
107
First board
53
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.

First ever to find it

planck

on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ZERIBAS
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ZERIBAS starts with Z and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEIRSZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

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 ZERIBA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ZERIBAS?

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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER