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BUTE

4 letters

Definition of BUTE

noun

Phenylbutazone.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From its middle syllable.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BUTE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 13 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
34
First board
103
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

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

Built from these letters

BUTE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BUTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BUTEOBUTESBUTENEBUTEOSBUTENESBUTEONINEBUTEONINESBUTENEDIOIC

Could you have found BUTE?

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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