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ACETABULA

9 letters

Definition of ACETABULA

noun

plural of acetabulum

ACETABULUM

noun

The bony cup of the hip bone which receives the head of the femur.

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Word DNA

ACETABULA inherits its ancestry from its root, ACETABULUM.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,664)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-bulum

Same root, ACETABULUM · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
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.

ACETABULA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
148
First board
21
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

greenhippo

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ACETABULA
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start ACETAB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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