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BOTANICS

8 letters

Definition of BOTANICS

noun

plural of botanic

BOTANIC

adjective

Of or pertaining to botany.

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Word DNA

BOTANICS inherits its ancestry from its root, BOTANIC.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. French
  3. Latin
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,601)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, BOTANIC · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BOTANICS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 140
Its 23 boards, across 140 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
30
First board
138
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

namie

on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOTANICS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BOTANI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOTANICS?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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