The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BUBOES
Definition of BUBOES
noun
plural of bubo
noun
An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
BUBOES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of bubo.
Word DNA
BUBOES inherits its ancestry from its root, BUBO.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,700)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BUBO · 5 relatives in the game
BUBOES in a sentence
“Greatly enlarged lymph nodes with spontaneous rupture in this manner are sometimes called buboes, and are also a mark of plague.”
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en], 2008
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BUBOES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 115 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUBOES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBEOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once.
Could you have found BUBOES?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER