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BATTIEST

8 letters

Definition of BATTIEST

adjective

superlative form of batty: most batty

BATTY

adjective

Mad, crazy, silly.

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Word DNA

BATTIEST inherits its ancestry from its root, BAT.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. German
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

14th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (828)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, BAT · 18 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Swedish.

Every Old Norse 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.

BATTIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
120
First board
148
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

stephanie

on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BATTIEST
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BATTIEST starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABEISTTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BATTIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BATTIERBATTIES

Could you have found BATTIEST?

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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.

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