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BOMBAST
Definition of BOMBAST
noun
Cotton, or cotton wool.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOMBAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOMBAST starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABBMOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once.
Words that start BOMBAS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BOMBAST?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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