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BITEWING

8 letters

Definition of BITEWING

noun

A radiograph taken to visualize the crowns of the posterior teeth and the height of the alveolar bone in relation to the cementoenamel junctions, commonly used to examine for interdental caries and recurrent caries under existing restorations.

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Where it comes from

From bite + wing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BITEWING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 2 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
83
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

robareowl

on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BITEWING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BITEWI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BITEWING?

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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