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BUROO

/bəˈɹuː/5 letters

Definition of BUROO

noun

The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Representing a Scottish pronunciation of bureau.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BUROO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
110
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

bard2thebone

on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BUROO
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BUROO starts with B and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read BOORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BUROO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BUROO?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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