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BASCINET
Definition of BASCINET
noun
A light helmet, typically with a high, pointed skull, either open-faced (in early models) or made with a visor (later models).
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Where it comes from
Via Middle English basynet (attested since the early 1300s), from Anglo-Norman bacynet, bacinet (“little basin”), diminutive of bacin, bassin (“basin, helmet”), but compare bassinet.
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.
BASCINET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 66, 25 July 2026.
Built from these letters
BASCINET starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABCEINST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BASCIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BASCINET?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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