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BUNCHY
Definition of BUNCHY
adjective
Having, or growing in bunches.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
BUNCHY carries 4 further meanings.
Having or being like a bunch or hunch; having knobs or protuberances: as, “an unshapen bunchy spear,”
Growing or existing in bunches; having or formed of bunches: as, “his bunchy tail,”
Specifically In mining, said of a lode when the ore is irregularly distributed through it in small masses or “pockets.”
adjective
Swelling out in bunches.
Where it comes from
From Middle English bunchy, bonchy, equivalent to bunch + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,019)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
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.
BUNCHY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 129 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 90 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUNCHY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BCHNUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found BUNCHY?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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