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ANIMATE
About ANIMATE
ANIMATE is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANIMATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 37, 26 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 60 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ANIMATE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEIMNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ANIMAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found ANIMATE?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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