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BOXCAR

6 letters

Definition of BOXCAR

noun

An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From box + car.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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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.

BOXCAR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 3 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
97
First board
105
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

mefetterolf

on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOXCAR
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BOXCAR starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABCORX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start BOXCAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOXCAR?

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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.

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