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BURBOTS
Definition of BURBOTS
noun
plural of burbot
BURBOT
noun
A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter.
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Word DNA
BURBOTS inherits its ancestry from its root, BURBOT.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,613)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BURBOT · 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.
BURBOTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 58 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BURBOTS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once.
Words that start BURBOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BURBOTS?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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