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ADVENTITIOUS

/ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs/12 letters

Definition of ADVENTITIOUS

adjective

From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.

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Where it comes from

From Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) + -īcius (suffix forming adjectives), from adveniō (“to arrive”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ADVENTITIOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
106
First board
14
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First found by a player on Day 106, 3 September 2026.

Built from these letters

ADVENTITIOUS
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

ADVENTITIOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEIINOSTTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and I appear more than once.

Words that start ADVENTIT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ADVENTITIAADVENTITIALADVENTITIASADVENTITIOUSLY

Could you have found ADVENTITIOUS?

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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