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BIRCHEN
Definition of BIRCHEN
adjective
Made from birch wood.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English birchen, birken, from Old English bircen, *biercen, beorcen (“made of birch, birchen”), from Proto-Germanic *birkīnaz (“made of birch”), equivalent to birch + -en. Cognate with Scots birken, birkin (“birchen”), Dutch berken (“birchen”), Low German berken (“birchen”), German birken (“birchen”).
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.
BIRCHEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 48 days.
First found by a player on Day 121.
Built from these letters
BIRCHEN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read BCEHINR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BIRCHEN?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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