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BOSCAGE
Definition of BOSCAGE
noun
A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).
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.
BOSCAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
BOSCAGE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEGOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BOSCAG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found BOSCAGE?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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