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CASTRATO
Definition of CASTRATO
noun
A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Italian castrato, from Latin castrō (“to castrate”), likely from caedō (“to cut”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,419)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CASTRATO · 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.
CASTRATO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CASTRATO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AACORSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.
Words that start CASTRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CASTRATO?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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