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BANDICOOTS
Definition of BANDICOOTS
noun
plural of bandicoot
noun
Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
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Word DNA
BANDICOOTS inherits its ancestry from its root, BANDICOOT.
How it is built
Same root, BANDICOOT · 1 relative 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.
BANDICOOTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BANDICOOTS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCDINOOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BANDIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 47
Could you have found BANDICOOTS?
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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.
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