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OBANG

5 letters

Definition of OBANG

noun

An old Japanese gold coin.

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Where it comes from

From Japanese 大判 (ōban).

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.

OBANG in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 106
Its 2 boards, across 106 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
94
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

Built from these letters

OBANG
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OBANG starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABGNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start OBANG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OBANG?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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