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BINTURONGS

10 letters

Definition of BINTURONGS

noun

plural of binturong

BINTURONG

noun

A large species of civet, Arctictis binturong, of southern Asia.

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Word DNA

BINTURONGS inherits its ancestry from its root, BINTURONG.

Line of descent

  1. Malay
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Malay

Deepest traced root

29th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (238)

Austronesian

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, BINTURONG · 1 relative in the game

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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.

BINTURONGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 172
Its 2 boards, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
159
First board
166
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

sibyl

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BINTURONGS
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BINTUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BINTURONGS?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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