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EMBOUCHURE

/ˌɒm.bʊˈʃʊə/10 letters

Definition of EMBOUCHURE

noun

The use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth when playing a wind instrument.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From French embouchure, from emboucher (“to put in one’s mouth”), from en- (“in”) + bouche (“mouth”), from Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

EMBOUCHURE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 4 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
48
First board
97
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

joy

on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EMBOUCHURE
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

EMBOUCHURE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCEEHMORUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and U appear more than once.

Words that start EMBOUC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found EMBOUCHURE?

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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