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BOURN

/bɔːn/5 letters

Definition of BOURN

noun

Alternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”).

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

BOURN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 121
Its 12 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
37
First board
121
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start BOURN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOURN?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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