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ACULEATED
Definition of ACULEATED
adjective
Having a sharp point; armed with prickles.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin aculeātus + -ed, from acus (“needle”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ACULEATE · 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.
ACULEATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACULEATED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDEELTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.
Could you have found ACULEATED?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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