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BESTIARY

/ˈbiːstiˌɛɹi/8 letters

Definition of BESTIARY

noun

A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bēstiārium, from Latin bēstia (“beast, animal”). By surface analysis, beast + -ary.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BESTIARY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 96
Its 19 boards, across 96 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
19
Boards found on
24
First board
96
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

ilyar

on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BESTIARY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BESTIARY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABEIRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BESTIA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BESTIALBESTIALSBESTIALLYBESTIALISEBESTIALISMBESTIALITYBESTIALIZEBESTIARIESBESTIALISEDBESTIALISESBESTIALISMSBESTIALIZED

Could you have found BESTIARY?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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