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BUMP
Definition of BUMP
noun
A light blow or jolting collision.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin. Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
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.
BUMP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 41, 30 June 2026.
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Built from these letters
BUMP starts with B and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read BMPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BUMP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found BUMP?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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