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ARTICULATING

12 letters

Definition of ARTICULATING

verb

present participle and gerund of articulate

ARTICULATE

verb

To make clear or effective.

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Word DNA

ARTICULATING inherits its ancestry from its root, ARTICULATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

32.9%

of traced words share this origin (9,339)

Italic

branch · 32.9% of traced words

How it is built

verb-ate

Same root, ARTICULATE · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

ARTICULATING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 140
Its one board, across 140 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

tim0theos

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

Built from these letters

ARTICULATING
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start ARTICULA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ARTICULARARTICULACYARTICULATEARTICULABLEARTICULATEDARTICULATESARTICULATORARTICULACIESARTICULATELYARTICULATIONARTICULATIVEARTICULATORS

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