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ADULATORS

9 letters

Definition of ADULATORS

noun

plural of adulator

ADULATOR

noun

One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.

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Word DNA

ADULATORS inherits its ancestry from its root, ADULATOR.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,860)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, ADULATOR · 1 relative 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.

ADULATORS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 21 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
71
First board
141
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

dbw

on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ADULATORS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ADULATORS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADLORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A 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 ADULAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ADULATORS?

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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.

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