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BORANE
Definition of BORANE
noun
Any binary compound of boron and hydrogen.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From bor(on) + -ane.
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.
BORANE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
Built from these letters
BORANE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABENOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found BORANE?
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 104 - and most players walked straight past it.
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