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BENCH
Definition of BENCH
noun
A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-. Cognate with Scots benk, bink (“bench”), West Frisian bank (“bench”), Dutch bank (“bench”), German Bank (“bench”), Danish bænk (“bench”), Swedish bänk (“bench”), Icelandic bekkur (“bench”). Doublet of banc, banco, and bank.
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.
BENCH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BENCH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read BCEHN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BENCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found BENCH?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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