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BORAX
Definition of BORAX
noun
A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin borax, baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag), which yielded Persian بوره (bure).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
18th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (497)
branch · 0.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BORAX · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BORAX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 265 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 67, 26 July 2026.
Built from these letters
BORAX starts with B and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read ABORX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found BORAX?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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