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OVERBUY
Definition of OVERBUY
verb
To buy excessively, especially to buy more than one needs or can afford.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From over- + buy.
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.
OVERBUY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 104, 1 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OVERBUY starts with O and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BEORUVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start OVERBU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OVERBUY?
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 104 - and most players walked straight past it.
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