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BESTROWED

9 letters

Definition of BESTROWED

verb

simple past of bestrow

BESTREW · via bestrow

verb

To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, BESTROW · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BESTROWED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 5 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
73
First board
147
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

blanks

on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BESTROWED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BESTROWED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEEORSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start BESTRO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BESTROWED?

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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.

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