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BORTZ
About BORTZ
BORTZ is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BORTZ in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 82 days.
Built from these letters
BORTZ starts with B and ends with Z. Sorted, its letters read BORTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start BORTZ
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found BORTZ?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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