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CIBOL

5 letters

Definition of CIBOL

noun

A perennial onion plant, Allium fistulosum, commonly called Welsh onion.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From French ciboule and Middle English chibolle, from Old Northern French chibole; both ultimately from Latin cepulla.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CIBOL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 122
Its 3 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
48
First board
78
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 78, 6 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 44 days.

First ever to find it

6c1

on Day 48, 7 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CIBOL
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CIBOL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read BCILO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CIBOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CIBOL?

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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.

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