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BUSHWACKING
Definition of BUSHWACKING
verb
present participle and gerund of bushwack
BUSHWHACK · via bushwack
verb
To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BUSHWACK · 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.
BUSHWACKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUSHWACKING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABCGHIKNSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BUSHWACKING?
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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.
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