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BUTTONHOLE
Definition of BUTTONHOLE
noun
A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
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Where it comes from
Originally buttonhold (“a loop of string to hold a button down”), but changed by folk etymology by influence of hole. By surface analysis, button + hole.
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.
BUTTONHOLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUTTONHOLE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEHLNOOTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and O appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BUTTON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUTTONHOLE?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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