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BONAFIDES
About BONAFIDES
BONAFIDES is a valid 9-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BONAFIDES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 57, 16 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 63 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BONAFIDES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABDEFINOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found BONAFIDES?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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