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BOING

/bɔɪŋ/5 letters

Definition of BOING

interjection

A representation of the sound of something bouncing. Announcing the presence of large, pert breasts, which are bouncy. Announcing the advent of male arousal (erection), via the metaphor of a spring springing energetically.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic. The “large breasts” sense is reborrowed from Japanese ボイン, in turn from English boing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

BOING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 54 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 99
Its 15 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
31
First board
99
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

fatdaddyjambo

on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BOING

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOING?

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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.

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