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BOTARGO
Definition of BOTARGO
noun
Bottarga; a cake or sausage made from salted mullet roe.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Occitan boutargo, from Arabic بُطَارِخ (buṭāriḵ). Doublet of bottarga and tarek.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,117)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BOTARGO · 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.
BOTARGO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 163, 30 October 2026.
Built from these letters
BOTARGO starts with B and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ABGOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found BOTARGO?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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