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OMBRE
Definition of OMBRE
noun
A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human.
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.
OMBRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 45 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
OMBRE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEMOR - 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 OMBRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found OMBRE?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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