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KEMB
Definition of KEMB
verb
Obsolete form of comb.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English kemben, from Old English cemban, from Proto-West Germanic *kambijan, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (“to comb”). Cognate with Dutch kemmen (“to comb”), German kämmen (“to comb”), Danish kæmme (“to comb”), Icelandic kemba (“to comb; card; debug”).
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.
KEMB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KEMB starts with K and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BEKM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start KEMB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found KEMB?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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