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BOLDEST

7 letters

Definition of BOLDEST

adjective

superlative form of bold: most bold

BOLD

adjective

Courageous, daring.

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Word DNA

BOLDEST inherits its ancestry from its root, BOLD.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,191)

How it is built

adjective

Same root, BOLD · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Italian, Latin, Russian, Swedish.

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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.

BOLDEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 5 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
33
First board
146
Latest board
77
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BOLDEST
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found BOLDEST?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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