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BARBELL
About BARBELL
BARBELL is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Where it comes from
Blend of bar + dumbbell. The piercing is named after the exercise equipment, because of the visual resemblance.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BARBELL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BARBELL starts with B and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ABBELLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BARBEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BARBELL?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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