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BUNTING
Definition of BUNTING
noun
Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Possibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from Middle English bonten (“to sift”), hence the material used for that purpose. Possibly from Germanic bundt (“to bind or tie together”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- German
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,839)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BUNT · 5 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BUNTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUNTING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BGINNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Could you have found BUNTING?
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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.
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