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BUNKMATES

9 letters

Definition of BUNKMATES

noun

plural of bunkmate

BUNKMATE

noun

One who sleeps in the same area as another person.

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Word DNA

BUNKMATES inherits its ancestry from its root, BUNKMATE.

How it is built

nouncompound-mate

Same root, BUNKMATE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BUNKMATES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 154
Its 16 boards, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
37
First board
147
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

greenwithivyPATRON

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BUNKMATES
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BUNKMA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BUNKMATES?

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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