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BAIL
Definition of BAIL
noun
Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English baille, from the Old French verb bailler (“to deliver or hand over”) and noun bail (“lease”), from Latin bāiulāre (“carry or bear”), from baiulus (“porter; steward”) (English: bailiff).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BAIL · 15 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.
BAIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BAIL starts with B and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ABIL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BAIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found BAIL?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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