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BATHWATER
Definition of BATHWATER
noun
The water used in a bath (bathtub).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From bath + water. Compare Dutch badwater (“bathwater”), German Badewasser (“bathwater”), Swedish badvatten (“bathwater”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BATHWATER · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BATHWATER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BATHWATER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AABEHRTTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.
Could you have found BATHWATER?
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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