The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BATTLEDORE
Definition of BATTLEDORE
noun
A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English batildore, batylledore, batildure, batyldoure, batyndore, probably as a blend of Middle English betel (“bat, club”) and Old Occitan batedor (“beater, bat”).
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.
BATTLEDORE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BATTLEDORE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABDEELORTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BATTLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BATTLEDORE?
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.
Play today's OUTLIER