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BOTANIZE
Definition of BOTANIZE
verb
To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From botany + -ize.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOTANIZE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 125, 22 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 125, 22 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOTANIZE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEINOTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start BOTANI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BOTANIZE?
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 125 - and most players walked straight past it.
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