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FOGBOW

6 letters

Definition of FOGBOW

noun

A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Blend of fog + rainbow.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

FOGBOW in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 4 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
47
First board
119
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

comixSUPPORTER

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FOGBOW
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FOGBOW starts with F and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read BFGOOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start FOGBOW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FOGBOW?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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