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BIFURCATE
Definition of BIFURCATE
verb
To divide or fork into two channels or branches.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus. Surface Analysis bi- + furcate.
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.
BIFURCATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BIFURCATE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEFIRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BIFURC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found BIFURCATE?
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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