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BOWHUNTER

9 letters

Definition of BOWHUNTER

noun

One who hunts with a bow and arrow.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From bow + hunter.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BOWHUNTER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
60
First board
85
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 60, 19 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.

First ever to find it

ogre

on Day 60, 19 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOWHUNTER
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BOWHUN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 60 - and most players walked straight past it.

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