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BAROUCHE

/bæˈɹuːʃ/8 letters

Definition of BAROUCHE

noun

A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.

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Where it comes from

From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.

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Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. Latin
  3. Italian
  4. German
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,144)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompoundbi-

Same root, BAROUCHE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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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.

BAROUCHE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 54 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 30 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
30
Boards found on
36
First board
158
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BAROUCHE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BAROUCHE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEHORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start BAROUC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BAROUCHBAROUCHES

Could you have found BAROUCHE?

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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.

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