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BILLYBOY
Definition of BILLYBOY
noun
A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel, used for trade along the east coast.of England in the 19th century.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Perhaps connected with bilander.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BILLYBOY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BILLYBOY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BILLYBOY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BBILLOYY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B, L and Y appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found BILLYBOY?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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