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AMATE

/əˈmɑːteɪ/5 letters

Definition of AMATE

noun

Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Spanish (papel) amate (“amate paper”), from Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

AMATE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 3 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
32
First board
104
Latest board
70
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.

Built from these letters

AMATE
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

AMATE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start AMATE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

AMATEDAMATESAMATEURAMATEURSAMATEURISHAMATEURISMAMATEURISMSAMATEURSHIPAMATEURISHLYAMATEURISHNESS

Could you have found AMATE?

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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.

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