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BIFOCALS
Definition of BIFOCALS
noun
Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.
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Where it comes from
From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.
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.
BIFOCALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BIFOCALS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCFILOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found BIFOCALS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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