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BATTY
Definition of BATTY
adjective
Mad, crazy, silly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From bat + -y. In sense “insane”, attested 1903, from expression have bats in one's belfry, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Compare also batshit (“insane”) and squirrelly (“jumpy, eccentric”).
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.
BATTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BATTY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found BATTY?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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