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BETRIM
Definition of BETRIM
verb
To trim (“decorate”); to adorn, deck, or embellish.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From be- (prefix meaning ‘about; around’) + trim.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BETRIM · 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.
BETRIM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 87 days.
Built from these letters
BETRIM starts with B and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read BEIMRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 BETRIM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BETRIM?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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