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BOTULISM
Definition of BOTULISM
noun
Poisoning caused by the toxin from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacterium that grows in improperly prepared food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From German Botulismus, from Latin botulus (“sausage”), the first identified source of the disease, + -ism.
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.
BOTULISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 187 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BOTULISM starts with B and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read BILMOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BOTULI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found BOTULISM?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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