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BOHEMIAN

/boʊˈhimi.ən/8 letters

Definition of BOHEMIAN

noun

A person, especially an artist or writer, who lives an unconventional or nonconformist lifestyle.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French bohémien (“person from Bohemia”), from Bohême (“Bohemia”), equivalent to Bohemia + -an. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Particularly: “In particular: the semantics need an explanation.”

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,087)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun4 syllablescompound-an

Same root, BOHEMIAN · 1 relative in the game

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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.

BOHEMIAN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 149 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 54 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
54
Boards found on
6
First board
147
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

annabelleshi

on Day 6, 27 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOHEMIAN
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BOHEMIAN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABEHIMNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start BOHEMI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOHEMIAN?

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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.

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