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ICEBOUND
Definition of ICEBOUND
adjective
Completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From ice + bound.
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.
ICEBOUND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ICEBOUND starts with I and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BCDEINOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found ICEBOUND?
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 92 - and most players walked straight past it.
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