The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BURROWS
Definition of BURROWS
noun
plural of burrow
noun
A tunnel or hole, or a system of tunnels, often as dug by a small creature for use as a home.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
BURROWS inherits its ancestry from its root, BURROW.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,614)
How it is built
Same root, BURROW · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BURROWS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BURROWS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BORRSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BURROW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BURROWS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER