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BONSPIEL

/ˈbɒnspiːl/8 letters

Definition of BONSPIEL

noun

A tournament in the sport of curling.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Scots bonspiel, from Middle Scots bonspele, possibly from Dutch bond (“league”) + spel (“game”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BONSPIEL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 7 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
60
First board
118
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 60, 19 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

kclayy

on Day 60, 19 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

BONSPIEL
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BONSPI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 60 - and most players walked straight past it.

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