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BARGHEST
Definition of BARGHEST
noun
A legendary monstrous black dog, said to possess large teeth and claws, and (sometimes) to be capable of changing form.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably inherited from Northern Middle English *berghgast, *barghgast, from bergh, bargh (“barrow”) + gast (“ghost”). Alternative hypotheses that first element is burgh (“town”) or bere (“bear”) lack semantic motivation.
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.
BARGHEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BARGHEST starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABEGHRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BARGHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found BARGHEST?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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