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BEWITCHES

9 letters

Definition of BEWITCHES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bewitch

BEWITCH

verb

To cast a spell upon.

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Word DNA

BEWITCHES inherits its ancestry from its root, BEWITCH.

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

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,235)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundbe-

Same root, BEWITCH · 4 relatives 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.

BEWITCHES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 20 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
24
First board
147
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BEWITCHES
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BEWITC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BEWITCHES?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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