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BOWLINE
Definition of BOWLINE
noun
A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bouline, bawelyne.
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.
BOWLINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BOWLINE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEILNOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BOWLIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found BOWLINE?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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