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BURRO
Definition of BURRO
noun
A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish burro.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Spanish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.2%
of traced words share this origin (966)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BURRO · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BURRO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 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
BURRO starts with B and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read BORRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
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 BURRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BURRO?
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.
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