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BIRCH
Definition of BIRCH
noun
Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English birċe, bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā, from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos. Compare West Frisian bjirk, German Birke, variant of *berkō (compare Dutch berk, Danish birk, Swedish björk, Norwegian bjørk), Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá), Lithuanian béržas, Czech bříza, Ossetian бӕрз (bærz), Russian берёза (berjóza)), Latin fraxinus (“ash tree, ash javelin”), Albanian bredh.
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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.
BIRCH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BIRCH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read BCHIR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BIRCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found BIRCH?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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