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BURGER

/ˈbɜːɡə/6 letters

Definition of BURGER

noun

A hamburger.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Clipping of hamburger, rebracketing it as ham + burger. First use appears c. 1937. Sense 5 is likely a back-formation from Burgerland.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Same root, BURG · 3 relatives in the game

BURGBURGSBURGES

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

BURGER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its 2 boards, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
151
First board
153
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First found by a player on Day 153, 20 October 2026.

Built from these letters

BURGER
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BURGER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BEGRRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start BURGER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BURGER?

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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.

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