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BOOST
Definition of BOOST
noun
A push from behind or below, as to one who is endeavoring to climb.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown. The verb is first recorded 1815; the noun, 1825. Compare Scots boost (“to move; drive off; shoo away”), bost, boast (“to threaten; scold”), Middle English boosten, bosten (“to threaten”). Possible doublet of boast.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOOST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 74, 2 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 35 days.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BOOST starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BOOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
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 BOOST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BOOST?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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