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OMBERS
Definition of OMBERS
Wiktionary has no entry for OMBERS itself. This is its base word, OMBER.
noun
Alternative spelling of ombre.
noun
A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
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Word DNA
OMBERS inherits its ancestry from its root, OMBRE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,888)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OMBRE · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OMBERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 103, 31 August 2026.
Built from these letters
OMBERS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEMORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found OMBERS?
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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