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BATTLEDORES
Definition of BATTLEDORES
noun
plural of battledore
noun
A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
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Word DNA
BATTLEDORES inherits its ancestry from its root, BATTLEDORE.
Line of descent
- Old Occitan
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
48th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (48)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BATTLEDORE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BATTLEDORES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
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
BATTLEDORES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABDEELORSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BATTLED
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BATTLEDORES?
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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