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BILGEWATERS

11 letters

Definition of BILGEWATERS

noun

plural of bilgewater

BILGEWATER

noun

Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.

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Word DNA

BILGEWATERS inherits its ancestry from its root, BILGEWATER.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, BILGEWATER · 1 relative in the game

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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.

BILGEWATERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 21 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
26
First board
150
Latest board
41
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

problemily

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BILGEWATERS
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BILGEWATERS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEEGILRSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start BILGEWA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BILGEWATERS?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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