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BARGEES

7 letters

Definition of BARGEES

noun

plural of bargee

BARGEE

noun

A crewman of a working barge.

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Word DNA

BARGEES inherits its ancestry from its root, BARGE.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,702)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, BARGE · 3 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · 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.

BARGEES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its 6 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
61
First board
130
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

flossyteacake

on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BARGEES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BARGEES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEEGRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

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

ABREGESBAREGES

Words that start BARGEE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BARGEEBARGEESE

Could you have found BARGEES?

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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.

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