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BOTCHINGS
Definition of BOTCHINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for BOTCHINGS itself. This is its base word, BOTCH.
verb
To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for BOTCH.
From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Doublet of bodge.
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.
BOTCHINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 66, 25 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOTCHINGS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCGHINOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BOTCHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BOTCHINGS?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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