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BONIFACE
Definition of BONIFACE
noun
The proprietor of a hotel or restaurant; an innkeeper.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
After Boniface, the innkeeper in George Farquhar's 1707 comedic play The Beaux' Stratagem.
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.
BONIFACE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BONIFACE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEFINO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found BONIFACE?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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