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BANISH
Definition of BANISH
verb
To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English banishen, from Old French baniss-, extended stem of banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”), of Germanic origin and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“curse, forbid”). Compare French bannir. Doublet of ban.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,911)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BANISH · 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.
BANISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BANISH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ABHINS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BANISH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BANISH?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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