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BIDON
Definition of BIDON
noun
A bottle or flask for holding a beverage such as water or wine; a water bottle which can be squeezed to squirt the beverage out of the nozzle, especially one designed for mounting on a bicycle.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French bidon (“can, canister, tin”), from Middle French bidon (“small sealed portable container made of metal or wood”), from Old Norse *biða (“container, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *bidōn, *bidjan (“tub, vat; vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (“barrel; bucket; pot”), from *bʰeydʰ- (“to bind; to weave”).
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.
BIDON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BIDON starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read BDINO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BIDON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BIDON?
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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