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BUDGETARY

/ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪ.tə.ɹi/9 letters

Definition of BUDGETARY

adjective

Of or pertaining to a budget.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From budget + -ary.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective4 syllablescompound-ary

Same root, BUDGET · 5 relatives in the game

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.

BUDGETARY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 13 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
34
First board
143
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BUDGETARY
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BUDGET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BUDGETBUDGETSBUDGETEDBUDGETERBUDGETEERBUDGETERSBUDGETINGBUDGETEERS

Could you have found BUDGETARY?

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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.

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