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BOUTING

/ˈbaʊtɪŋ/7 letters

Definition of BOUTING

verb

present participle and gerund of bout

BOUT

noun

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

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Word DNA

BOUTING 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 (3,911)

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.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BOUTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its 3 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
156
First board
166
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 156, 23 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

kannibalkrunch

on Day 156, 23 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOUTING
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found BOUTING?

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 156 - and most players walked straight past it.

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