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WOMBAT
Definition of WOMBAT
noun
A herbivorous, burrowing marsupial of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Dharug wumbat.
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.
WOMBAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 188 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WOMBAT starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABMOTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found WOMBAT?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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