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BITTER

/ˈbɪt.ə/6 letters

Definition of BITTER

adjective

Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

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Where it comes from

From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively. Cognate with Saterland Frisian, West Frisian, Low German, Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur (all meaning “bitter”).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BITTER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
118
First board
120
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 118, 15 September 2026.

Built from these letters

BITTER
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BITTER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BEIRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BITTER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BITTERNBITTERSBITTEREDBITTERERBITTERLYBITTERNSBITTERESTBITTERINGBITTERISHBITTERNUTBITTERBARKBITTERLING

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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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.

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