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BOOS

/buːz/4 letters

Definition of BOOS

noun

plural of boo

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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.

BOOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 122
Its 6 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
29
First board
122
Latest board
49
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

mrcapcut14

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOOS
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BOOS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOOS?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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