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BOOTIE

6 letters

Definition of BOOTIE

noun

Alternative spelling of bootee.

BOOTEE

noun

A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet.

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Word DNA

BOOTIE inherits its ancestry from its root, BOOT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Frankish
  4. Old French
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,506)

How it is built

noun

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 →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BOOTIE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 6 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
47
First board
146
Latest board
46
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First found by a player on Day 47, 6 July 2026.

Built from these letters

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

BOOTIE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEIOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BOOTIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOOTIE?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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