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BESTIARY
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).
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.
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
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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.
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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