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BOWER
Definition of BOWER
noun
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,911)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BOW · 13 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Norwegian, Old Norse, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOWER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 62 boards so far. 187 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOWER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BEORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BOWER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found BOWER?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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