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BURIAL
Definition of BURIAL
noun
The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English biriel, a backformation from biriels, which was re-interpreted as a plural, itself from from Old English byrġels, from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els. By surface analysis, bury + -al, but originally unrelated to this suffix.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BURIAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BURIAL starts with B and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ABILRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found BURIAL?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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