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CANTILLATES

11 letters

Definition of CANTILLATES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of cantillate

CANTILLATE

verb

To chant, or to recite musically (especially in a synagogue).

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Word DNA

CANTILLATES inherits its ancestry from its root, CANTILLATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,318)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-ate

Same root, CANTILLATE · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CANTILLATES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its one board, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
173
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

zenottrPATRON

on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CANTILLATES
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CANTILLATES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACEILLNSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, T and L appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start CANTILL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CANTILLATECANTILLATEDCANTILLATINGCANTILLATIONCANTILLATIONS

Could you have found CANTILLATES?

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