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ADAGIETTO

/əˌdæ(d)ʒiːˈɛtəʊ/9 letters

Definition of ADAGIETTO

noun

A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played slightly faster than adagio.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian adagietto, a diminutive of adagio.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.7%

of traced words share this origin (1,424)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun5 syllables

Every Italian 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.

ADAGIETTO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
173
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

pezinvaders

on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ADAGIETTO
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ADAGIETTO starts with A and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AADEGIOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found ADAGIETTO?

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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.

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