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ADOPTEE
Definition of ADOPTEE
noun
An adopted son or daughter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt", equivalent to adopt + -ee.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ADOPTEE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ADOPTEE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEEOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ADOPTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ADOPTEE?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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