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AEGROTATS

9 letters

Definition of AEGROTATS

noun

plural of aegrotat

AEGROTAT

noun

A certificate indicating that a student is ill, excusing attendance at lectures and examinations and allowing courses to be passed without finishing the work.

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Word DNA

AEGROTATS inherits its ancestry from its root, AEGROTAT.

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 (9,723)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, AEGROTAT · 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.

AEGROTATS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 150
Its one board, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

tjdewey

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start AEGROT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AEGROTATS?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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