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BAULKIEST

9 letters

Definition of BAULKIEST

adjective

superlative form of baulky: most baulky

BALKY · via baulky

adjective

Refusing to proceed or cooperate.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

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.

BAULKIEST in OUTLIER

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

Day 1Day 148
Its 14 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
36
First board
136
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

vituperation

on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BAULKIEST
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BAULKIEST starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABEIKLSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start BAULKI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BAULKIEST?

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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.

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