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BUNCH
Definition of BUNCH
noun
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite 𒉺𒀭𒆪𒍑 (/pankuš/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)). Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).
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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.
BUNCH in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUNCH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read BCHNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BUNCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUNCH?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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