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BACKSIDE
Definition of BACKSIDE
noun
The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly: The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially an outhouse.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From back + side.
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.
BACKSIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 77, 5 August 2026.
Built from these letters
BACKSIDE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEIKS - 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.
Words that start BACKSI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BACKSIDE?
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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.
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