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BICOLOUR

8 letters

Definition of BICOLOUR

adjective

Having two colours

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin bicolor; also analyzable as bi- + colour.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

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 (23,951)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompoundbi-

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.

BICOLOUR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its one board, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
72
First board
85
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 85 days.

Built from these letters

BICOLOUR
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BICOLO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BICOLOUR?

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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