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ABATER

/əˈbeɪ.tɚ/6 letters

Definition of ABATER

noun

One who, or that which, abates.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English abatere. Equivalent to abate + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ABATER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its 3 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
75
First board
109
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

blondeorama

on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ABATER
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ABATER starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AABERT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start ABATER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ABATER?

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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.

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