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BIMA
Definition of BIMA
noun
The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Hebrew בִּימָה (bîmâ). Doublet of bema.
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.
BIMA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BIMA starts with B and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ABIM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BIMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found BIMA?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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