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BERM
Definition of BERM
noun
A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope. (Can we verify this sense?)
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).
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.
BERM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 52 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BERM starts with B and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read BEMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BERM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found BERM?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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