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BINOMIALS

9 letters

Definition of BINOMIALS

noun

plural of binomial

BINOMIAL

adjective

Consisting of two terms, or parts.

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Word DNA

BINOMIALS inherits its ancestry from its root, BINOMIAL.

Line of descent

  1. Arabic
  2. Old French
  3. Ancient Greek
  4. Latin
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Arabic

Deepest traced root

12th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.3%

of traced words share this origin (399)

Semitic

branch · 2% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-al-nomialbi-

Same root, BINOMIAL · 1 relative in the game

Every Arabic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

BINOMIALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 153
Its 27 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
29
First board
150
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

problemily

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BINOMIALS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

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 BINOMI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BINOMIALBINOMINALBINOMIALLYBINOMINALS

Could you have found BINOMIALS?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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