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BOUT
Definition of BOUT
noun
A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht. For the sense development compare bender.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 93 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BOUT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BOUT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found BOUT?
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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