The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BURGRAVE
Definition of BURGRAVE
noun
The military governor of a town or castle in the Middle Ages, especially in German-speaking Europe; a nobleman of the same status.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From German Burggraf, from Burg (“castle”) + Graf (“count”). Compare Dutch burggraaf, French burgrave. See margrave.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (888)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BURGRAVE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BURGRAVE 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 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BURGRAVE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEGRRUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Could you have found BURGRAVE?
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.
Play today's OUTLIER