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BOBS

4 letters

Definition of BOBS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bob

BOB

symbol

ISO 639-3 language code for Aweer.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BOBS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its 2 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
118
First board
153
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

devinmewing

on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOBS
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BOBS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once.

Words that start BOBS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BOBSLEDBOBSTAYBOBSLEDSBOBSTAYSBOBSLEIGHBOBSLEDDEDBOBSLEDDERBOBSLEIGHSBOBSLEDDERSBOBSLEDDINGBOBSLEIGHEDBOBSLEIGHER

Could you have found BOBS?

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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.

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