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ABLEGATE

/ˈæb.lə.ɡeɪt/8 letters

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).

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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 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 106
Its 3 boards, across 106 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
80
First board
88
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 88, 16 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

mekanek

on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ABLEGATE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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.

Words that start ABLEGA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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