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CAUDATES

8 letters

Definition of CAUDATES

noun

plural of caudate

CAUDATE

adjective

Tapering into a long, tail-like extension at the apex.

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Word DNA

CAUDATES inherits its ancestry from its root, CAUDATE.

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 (25,613)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ate

Same root, CAUDATE · 2 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.

CAUDATES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 16 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
61
First board
168
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

toby

on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

CAUDATES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACDESTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start CAUDAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CAUDATES?

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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.

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