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BURGH

/ˈbʌɹə/5 letters

Definition of BURGH

noun

a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).

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Where it comes from

From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cf. Strasbourg. Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

BURGH in OUTLIER

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

Day 1Day 109
Its 16 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
24
First board
109
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BURGH
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BURGH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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