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BUSBOYS

7 letters

Definition of BUSBOYS

noun

plural of busboy

BUSBOY

noun

An assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables.

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Word DNA

BUSBOYS inherits its ancestry from its root, BUSBOY.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, BUSBOY · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BUSBOYS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its one board, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
146
First board
29
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

katies

on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BUSBOYS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BUSBOYS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBOSSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B and S appear more than once.

Words that start BUSBOY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BUSBOYS?

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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.

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