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BESOT
Definition of BESOT
verb
To muddle, stupefy, or cause to act foolishly, as with alcoholic liquor or infatuation.
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Other senses
BESOT carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To muddle or stupefy, as with alcoholic liquor or infatuation.
To infatuate; make a dotard of.
To stupefy; affect with mental or moral stupidity or blindness.
To make sottish, as with drink; make a sot of.
Where it comes from
From be- + sot. Compare to Middle English assoten, assotten (“to act foolishly; fall madly in love, become infatuated”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BESOT · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BESOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 69 boards so far. 182 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BESOT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BEOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of BESOT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BESOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found BESOT?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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