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BATHE
Definition of BATHE
verb
To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.
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.
BATHE 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 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 74, 2 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BATHE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEHT - 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 BATHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found BATHE?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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