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BIRDWING
Definition of BIRDWING
noun
Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genera Troides and Ornithoptera.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Calque of Translingual Ornithoptera. By surface analysis, bird + wing.
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.
BIRDWING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 127, 24 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 127, 24 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BIRDWING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BDGIINRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found BIRDWING?
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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