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BOUCHON
Definition of BOUCHON
noun
A piece of tubing forming the pivot holes in watch and clock plates.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
French bouchon
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7%
of traced words share this origin (1,806)
branch · 15.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOUCHON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 128, 25 September 2026.
Built from these letters
BOUCHON starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read BCHNOOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found BOUCHON?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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