The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BUSTICATED
Definition of BUSTICATED
verb
simple past and past participle of busticate
BUSTICATE
verb
To break into pieces.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
BUSTICATED inherits its ancestry from its root, BUSTICATE.
How it is built
Same root, BUSTICATE · 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.
BUSTICATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUSTICATED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEISTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start BUSTIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUSTICATED?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER