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BORAGE

/ˈbɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/6 letters

Definition of BORAGE

noun

Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English borage, borrowed from Old French borage (compare French bourrache), from Medieval Latin borrago, either from Latin borra (“short wool, rough hair”) or Arabic أَبُو العَرَق (ʔabū l-ʕaraq, literally “father of sweat”).

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.

BORAGE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 24 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
26
First board
109
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BORAGE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BORAGE

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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