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BOOT
Definition of BOOT
noun
A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football (historically in the form of boots, now shorter, but still called the same).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,506)
How it is built
Same root, BOOT · 16 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English, Old Norse.
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.
BOOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 50 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BOOT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BOOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found BOOT?
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