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BONY
Definition of BONY
adjective
Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bony, equivalent to bone + -y.
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.
BONY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 99, 27 August 2026.
Built from these letters
BONY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BONY?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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