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COUNTERBID
Definition of COUNTERBID
noun
A bid made in response to a previous bid by another party
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From counter- + bid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COUNTERBID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
Built from these letters
COUNTERBID starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BCDEINORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COUNTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COUNTERBID?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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