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BOUNDARY

/ˈbaʊndɹi/8 letters

Definition of BOUNDARY

noun

The dividing line or location between two areas.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From bound + -ary. Semantically displaced native Old English mearc (“boundary, limit”) whence Modern English mark.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BOUNDARY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 100
Its 17 boards, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
6
First board
100
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.

Built from these letters

BOUNDARY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BOUNDARY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABDNORUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start BOUNDA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BOUNDABLEBOUNDARIES

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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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.

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