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BOTANISED
Definition of BOTANISED
verb
simple past and past participle of botanise
BOTANIZE · via botanise
verb
To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BOTANISE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOTANISED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOTANISED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEINOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 BOTANI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 49
Could you have found BOTANISED?
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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.
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