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BLUESTEM
Definition of BLUESTEM
noun
Any of various grasses having bluish stems, including little bluestem and big bluestem, principally in tribe Andropogoneae.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From blue + stem.
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.
BLUESTEM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BLUESTEM starts with B and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read BEELMSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start BLUEST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BLUESTEM?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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