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BURGAGES
Definition of BURGAGES
noun
plural of burgage
BURGAGE
noun
A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.
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Word DNA
BURGAGES inherits its ancestry from its root, BURGAGE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BURGAGE · 1 relative 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.
BURGAGES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 138, 5 October 2026.
Built from these letters
BURGAGES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEGGRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.
Words that start BURGAG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BURGAGES?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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