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ABLEGATE
Definition of ABLEGATE
verb
To send abroad.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“to send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“to dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ABLEGATE · 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.
ABLEGATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ABLEGATE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABEEGLT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.
Could you have found ABLEGATE?
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 80 - and most players walked straight past it.
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