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ABORTIVES
Definition of ABORTIVES
noun
plural of abortive
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Word DNA
ABORTIVES inherits its ancestry from its root, ABORTIVE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ABORTIVE · 2 relatives 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.
ABORTIVES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ABORTIVES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEIORSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ABORTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ABORTIVES?
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 150 - and most players walked straight past it.
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