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BATTUE
Definition of BATTUE
noun
A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French battue, ultimately from Latin battere. Doublet of battuta, which arrived via Italian.
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.
BATTUE 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
BATTUE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABETTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found BATTUE?
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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