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BOSUN
Definition of BOSUN
noun
Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Phonemic respelling of boatswain.
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.
BOSUN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOSUN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read BNOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BOSUN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found BOSUN?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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