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CONVERTAPLANE
Definition of CONVERTAPLANE
noun
Alternative form of convertiplane.
noun
Any of several forms of aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and landing, and of normal forward flight; usually has variable geometry wings that can rotate
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Word DNA
CONVERTAPLANE inherits its ancestry from its root, AIR.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,337)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AIR · 34 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONVERTAPLANE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONVERTAPLANE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEELNNOPRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N, E and A appear more than once.
Words that start CONVERTAP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONVERTAPLANE?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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