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BILBERRIES
Definition of BILBERRIES
noun
plural of bilberry
BILBERRY
noun
Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
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Word DNA
BILBERRIES inherits its ancestry from its root, BILBERRY.
Line of descent
- Old Norse
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (833)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BILBERRY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Proto-Germanic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BILBERRIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BILBERRIES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBEEIILRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B, I, E and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BILBER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BILBERRIES?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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