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BOROUGH
Definition of BOROUGH
noun
A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
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).
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.
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 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.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found BOROUGH?
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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