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BINOCULAR

/bɪˈnɔkjʊlə/9 letters

Definition of BINOCULAR

adjective

Using two eyes or viewpoints; especially, using two eyes or viewpoints to ascertain distance.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French binoculaire.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BINOCULAR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 100
Its 14 boards, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
9
First board
100
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

BINOCULAR
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BINOCULAR starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABCILNORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start BINOCU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BINOCULARSBINOCULARLYBINOCULARITYBINOCULARITIES

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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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.

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