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AUTOCLAVED

10 letters

Definition of AUTOCLAVED

adjective

That has been heated, treated, or sterilized in an autoclave.

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Word DNA

AUTOCLAVED inherits its ancestry from its root, AUTOCLAVE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,457)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompoundauto-

Same root, AUTOCLAVE · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

AUTOCLAVED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 141
Its 27 boards, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
41
First board
139
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

adrianward

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AUTOCLAVED
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AUTOCLAVED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDELOTUV - 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 AUTOCL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AUTOCLAVED?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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