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BOOTING
Definition of BOOTING
verb
present participle and gerund 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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Word DNA
BOOTING inherits its ancestry from its root, BOOT.
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.
BOOTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 9, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOOTING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BGINOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found BOOTING?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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