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ADULTER
Definition of ADULTER
noun
An adulterer, especially a male one.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin adulter.
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
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (10,004)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ADULT · 3 relatives 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.
ADULTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ADULTER starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ADELRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ADULTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ADULTER?
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 150 - and most players walked straight past it.
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