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CATBOATS
Definition of CATBOATS
noun
plural of catboat
noun
A sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in New England and later adapted for racing and cruising. It has a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern.
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Word DNA
CATBOATS inherits its ancestry from its root, CATBOAT.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
23rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (342)
branch · 0.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CATBOAT · 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.
CATBOATS 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 14 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
CATBOATS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABCOSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.
Could you have found CATBOATS?
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.
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