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BOUNDARY
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).
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.
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 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.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found BOUNDARY?
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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