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ASTROLABES
Definition of ASTROLABES
noun
plural of astrolabe
noun
An astronomical and navigational instrument for gauging the altitude of the Sun and stars.
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Word DNA
ASTROLABES inherits its ancestry from its root, ASTROLABE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.3%
of traced words share this origin (10,613)
branch · 12.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ASTROLABE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ASTROLABES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ASTROLABES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABELORSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and S appear more than once.
Words that start ASTROL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ASTROLABES?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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