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KILOBYTE

8 letters

Definition of KILOBYTE

noun

One thousand (10, or 1,000) bytes.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) + byte.

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.

KILOBYTE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 115
Its 10 boards, across 115 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
37
First board
115
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

lilc3316

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

KILOBYTE
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

KILOBYTE starts with K and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEIKLOTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start KILOBY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found KILOBYTE?

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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