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BOGONS

6 letters

Definition of BOGONS

noun

plural of bogon

BOGON

noun

The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.

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Word DNA

BOGONS inherits its ancestry from its root, BOGON.

How it is built

nouncompound-on

Same root, BOGON · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

BOGONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 178
Its one board, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
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First board
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Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 178, 14 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

canquitanytime

on Day 178, 14 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOGONS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

BONGOSBOONGS

Could you have found BOGONS?

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 178 - and most players walked straight past it.

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