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BACKSPEIR
About BACKSPEIR
BACKSPEIR is a valid 9-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
Same root, BACKSPEIR · 2 relatives 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.
BACKSPEIR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BACKSPEIR starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABCEIKPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BACKSP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BACKSPEIR?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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