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BACKIE
Definition of BACKIE
noun
A ride on the back of a bicycle or motorbike.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From back + -ie.
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.
BACKIE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 121, 18 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BACKIE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEIK - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BACKIE?
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 121 - and most players walked straight past it.
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