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YBOUNDEN

8 letters

Definition of YBOUNDEN

verb

past participle of bind.

BIND

verb

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

y- + bounden

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, BIND · 7 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

YBOUNDEN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its 2 boards, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
159
First board
172
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 159, 26 October 2026.

Built from these letters

YBOUNDEN
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

YBOUNDEN starts with Y and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read BDENNOUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start YBOUND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found YBOUNDEN?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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