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BUSHED

/bʊʃt/6 letters

Definition of BUSHED

adjective

Very tired; exhausted.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From bush.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective1 syllable

Same root, BUSH · 22 relatives 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.

BUSHED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 11 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
42
First board
147
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

brad

on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BUSHED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BUSHED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEHSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found BUSHED?

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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.

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