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BUGLIKE
Definition of BUGLIKE
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From bug + -like.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BUGLIKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 133, 30 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 133, 30 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUGLIKE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEGIKLU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BUGLIKE?
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 133 - and most players walked straight past it.
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