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BATATA

/bəˈtɑ.tə/6 letters

Definition of BATATA

noun

sweet potato (plant)

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata. Doublet of potato.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Spanish
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Spanish

Deepest traced root

12th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.2%

of traced words share this origin (973)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Same root, BATATA · 1 relative in the game

Every Spanish word → · 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.

BATATA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its one board, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
148
First board
22
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.

First ever to find it

thamnophis

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BATATA
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BATATA starts with B and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAABTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.

Words that start BATATA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BATATA?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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