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BICHIR
Definition of BICHIR
noun
Any ray-finned fish of the genus Polypterus in the family Polypteridae, having elongated bodies covered in thick, bone-like, ganoid scales.
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Where it comes from
From the species epithet of Polypterus bichir taken over in 1802/1803, the years of its collection and description, after Arabic بَشِير (bašīr).
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.
BICHIR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 34 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BICHIR starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BCHIIR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found BICHIR?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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