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BICOLORS

8 letters

Definition of BICOLORS

noun

plural of bicolor

BICOLOUR · via bicolor

adjective

Having two colours

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Word DNA

BICOLORS inherits its ancestry from its root, BICOLOUR.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,914)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompoundbi-

Same root, BICOLOUR · 4 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · 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.

BICOLORS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its 5 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
72
First board
153
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 79, 7 August 2026.

Built from these letters

BICOLORS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BICOLORS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCILOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

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 BICOLO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BICOLORS?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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