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BOET

/bʊt/4 letters

Definition of BOET

noun

A brother; often prefixed informally to a man’s first name.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Afrikaans boet (“brother, comrade”), from a Zealandic, West Flemish boet (“boy, youth”), probably a hypocoristic form of broeder (“brother”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

BOET in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 118
Its 2 boards, across 118 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
78
First board
105
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

mscottPATRON

on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOET
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BOET starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BEOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BOET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOET?

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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.

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