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KABOOMS

7 letters

Definition of KABOOMS

noun

plural of kaboom

KABOOM

noun

The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

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Word DNA

KABOOMS inherits its ancestry from its root, KABOOM.

How it is built

nouncompoundka-

Same root, KABOOM · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Italian.

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Rarity score
Withheld
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.

KABOOMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its 2 boards, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
148
First board
171
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

steelydan

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

KABOOMS
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

KABOOMS starts with K and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABKMOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start KABOOM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found KABOOMS?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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