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AITCHBONE
Definition of AITCHBONE
noun
A cut of beef lying above the rump bone.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rebracketing of "a nache-bone" to "an aitchbone". See natch, bone. Attested since the late 1400s, and initially also spelled hach- with a spurious h.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, AITCHBONE · 1 relative 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.
AITCHBONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AITCHBONE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEHINOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found AITCHBONE?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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