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BOATS
Definition of BOATS
noun
plural of boat
noun
Vessel for travelling by water. A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship".
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Word DNA
BOATS inherits its ancestry from its root, BOAT.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,614)
How it is built
Same root, BOAT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, French, Icelandic, Latin, Middle Dutch, Norwegian, Old Norse, Russian and 1 more.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOATS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BOATS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BOATS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found BOATS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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