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BELATED
Definition of BELATED
adjective
Affected or overtaken by the lateness of the time; hence, synonym of benighted (“overtaken by night; caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination”).
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Where it comes from
From belate (verb) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BELATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BELATED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEELT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E 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 BELATE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found BELATED?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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