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ABATURE
Definition of ABATURE
noun
Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French abateure, from the verb abatre (“to knock down, to destroy”). See abate.
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.
ABATURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ABATURE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABERTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found ABATURE?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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