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BULK

/bʌlk/4 letters

Definition of BULK

noun

Size, specifically, volume.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English bulk, bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold; heap; bulge”), borrowed from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”). Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

BULK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 121
Its 9 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
37
First board
110
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.

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Built from these letters

BULK
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

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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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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