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BACULIFORM
Definition of BACULIFORM
adjective
Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Latin baculum (“staff”) + -iform
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.
BACULIFORM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BACULIFORM starts with B and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ABCFILMORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BACULI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found BACULIFORM?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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