The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BORNEOL
Definition of BORNEOL
noun
A bicyclic organic compound and a terpene, easily oxidized to the ketone yielding camphor.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Borneo + -ol.
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.
BORNEOL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BORNEOL starts with B and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read BELNOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found BORNEOL?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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