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BEWET

5 letters

Definition of BEWET

verb

To wet or moisten profusely.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English beweten, biweten, equivalent to be- + wet.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,283)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundbe-

Same root, BEWET · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English word → · 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.

BEWET in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 3 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
165
First board
172
Latest board
4
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 165, 1 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

rowangayle

on Day 165, 1 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BEWET
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BEWET starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BEETW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start BEWET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BEWETSBEWETTEDBEWETTING

Could you have found BEWET?

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 165 - and most players walked straight past it.

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