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BONA
Definition of BONA
adjective
Good.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus.
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.
BONA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 74, 2 August 2026.
Built from these letters
BONA starts with B and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ABNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BONA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BONA?
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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.
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