The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BONXIE
Definition of BONXIE
noun
The great skua, Stercorarius skua.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Scots bonxie, from Old Norse bunki.
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.
BONXIE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BONXIE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEINOX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found BONXIE?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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