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BUTTONHOLED
Definition of BUTTONHOLED
verb
simple past and past participle of buttonhole
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Word DNA
BUTTONHOLED inherits its ancestry from its root, BUTTONHOLE.
How it is built
Same root, BUTTONHOLE · 3 relatives 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.
BUTTONHOLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
Built from these letters
BUTTONHOLED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEHLNOOTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and O appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BUTTONH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUTTONHOLED?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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