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BOLINE

6 letters

Definition of BOLINE

noun

A white handled knife used in Wicca, for physical cutting, in contrast to the athame.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Originally spelled bolline. From Italian bolino, which is a variant of bulino (“burin”). The bolino was conflated with the cortel bianco ("white knife"). Doublet of burin.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

BOLINE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 5 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
72
First board
118
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

carynv

on Day 72, 31 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOLINE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BOLINE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOLINE?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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