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BOOKLIGHT

9 letters

Definition of BOOKLIGHT

noun

A small clip-on light, usually battery-powered, used for reading books in the dark

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From book + light.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

BOOKLIGHT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its one board, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
83
First board
19
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

jcoalson

on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOOKLIGHT
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BOOKLIGHT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BGHIKLOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BOOKLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOOKLIGHT?

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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.

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