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WOMB
Definition of WOMB
noun
In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded nonnative Middle English mater, matere (“womb”), and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WOMB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 82 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WOMB starts with W and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BMOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WOMB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found WOMB?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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