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BALMIEST

8 letters

Definition of BALMIEST

adjective

superlative form of balmy: most balmy

BALMY

adjective

Producing balm.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BALMIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 24 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
33
First board
150
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

bambi

on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BALMIEST
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BALMIEST starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABEILMST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BALMIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BALMIEST?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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