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BURNOOSE
Definition of BURNOOSE
noun
A thick hooded cloak worn by Berbers and Arabs in Northwest Africa.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French burnous, from Arabic بُرْنُس (burnus).
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.
BURNOOSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
BURNOOSE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BENOORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found BURNOOSE?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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