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BOUTED

/ˈbaʊtɪd/6 letters

Definition of BOUTED

verb

simple past and past participle of bout

BOUT

noun

A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.

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Word DNA

BOUTED inherits its ancestry from its root, BOUT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,847)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb2 syllablescompound

Same root, BOUT · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BOUTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its 4 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
144
First board
162
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

acrocrab

on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOUTED
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BOUTED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found BOUTED?

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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.

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