The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BURGEONS
Definition of BURGEONS
noun
plural of burgeon
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
BURGEONS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of burgeon.
Word DNA
BURGEONS inherits its ancestry from its root, BURGEON.
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,223)
How it is built
Same root, BURGEON · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Latin, Old English.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
BURGEONS in a sentence
“Although the book's foundation is rooted in one man's extraordinary biography, it burgeons beyond that into a story of America's westward expansion and pre-Oklahoma history.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BURGEONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BURGEONS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEGNORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BURGEO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BURGEONS?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER