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BATEAU

/bætˈəʊ/6 letters

Definition of BATEAU

noun

A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French bateau.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BATEAU in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 106
Its 3 boards, across 106 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
13
First board
100
Latest board
53
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BATEAU
6
Letters
4
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

BATEAU starts with B and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AABETU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start BATEAU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BATEAU?

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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.

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