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BERE
Definition of BERE
noun
Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bere (“barley”), from Old English bere (“barley”), from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”). Compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“emmer”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”). See also: barley.
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.
BERE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 70 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BERE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEER - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BERE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found BERE?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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