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BUTCHER
Definition of BUTCHER
noun
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BUTCHER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BUTCHER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BCEHRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BUTCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found BUTCHER?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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