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BOULTING
Definition of BOULTING
verb
present participle and gerund of boult
BOLT · via boult
noun
A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BOULT · 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.
BOULTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BOULTING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BGILNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BOULTING?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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