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BASEBALL
Definition of BASEBALL
noun
A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
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Where it comes from
From base + ball.
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.
BASEBALL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BASEBALL starts with B and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AABBELLS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B, A and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BASEBA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BASEBALL?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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