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BANDY
Definition of BANDY
verb
To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French bander (“to bandy at tennis”), with -y, -ie added due to influence from Spanish and Portuguese bandear and/or Old Occitan bandir (“to throw”), from the same root as English band. Compare also with banter.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
47th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (48)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BANDY · 6 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.
BANDY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 243 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BANDY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABDNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BANDY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found BANDY?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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