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ACUTEST

7 letters

Definition of ACUTEST

adjective

superlative form of acute: most acute

ACUTE

adjective

Brief, quick, short.

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Word DNA

ACUTEST inherits its ancestry from its root, ACUTE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.5%

of traced words share this origin (24,890)

Italic

branch · 30.5% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, ACUTE · 5 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

ACUTEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its 2 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
90
First board
148
Latest board
58
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

tatakata

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ACUTEST
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start ACUTES

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ACUTEST?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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