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ALTITUDINOUS

12 letters

Definition of ALTITUDINOUS

adjective

Lofty; very high.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin altitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin altitūdō, from altus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, altitude + -ous.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,276)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ous

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

ALTITUDINOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
36
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.

First ever to find it

rustyPATRONContributor

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

Built from these letters

ALTITUDINOUS
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start ALTITUDI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ALTITUDINAL

Could you have found ALTITUDINOUS?

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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