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BOROUGH

/ˈbʌ.ɹə/7 letters

Definition of BOROUGH

noun

A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”). Cognate with Dutch burcht, German Burg, Danish borg, Swedish borg, French bourg, Turkish burç. Doublet of Brough, burgh, and Bury.

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.

BOROUGH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 20 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
26
First board
100
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

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

Built from these letters

BOROUGH
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BOROUGH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read BGHOORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

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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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