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BILLOW
Definition of BILLOW
noun
A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English *bilwe, borrowed from Old Norse bylgja, from Proto-Germanic *bulgijō. Cognates include Danish bølge (“wave”); Norwegian Bokmål bølge (“wave”), Norwegian Nynorsk bylgje (“wave”); Swedish bölja (“wave”); German Low German Bulge, Bulg, Bülg (“billow, wave”); German Bulge (“billow, wave”). Compare bellow, bawl.
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.
BILLOW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 110, 7 September 2026.
Built from these letters
BILLOW starts with B and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read BILLOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BILLOW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BILLOW?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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