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BOIDS

5 letters

Definition of BOIDS

noun

plural of boid: pronunciation spelling of birds.

BOID

noun

A computer simulation of an animal that flies in flocks or swarms.

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Word DNA

BOIDS inherits its ancestry from its root, BOID.

How it is built

noun-oid

Same root, BOID · 1 relative in the game

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.

BOIDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its 6 boards, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
148
First board
176
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 176, 12 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

uaau

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOIDS
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found BOIDS?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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