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BEDSTRAW
Definition of BEDSTRAW
noun
Any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bedstraw, bedstrau, bedde-straw, equivalent to bed + straw.
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.
BEDSTRAW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
BEDSTRAW starts with B and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read ABDERSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BEDSTR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BEDSTRAW?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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