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CORONATE

/ˈkɒɹənət/8 letters

Definition of CORONATE

verb

To crown (a sovereign or champion).

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Where it comes from

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin corōnātus (“crowned”), perfect passive participle of corōnō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from corōna (“crown”) + -ō.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,633)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

verb3 syllablescompound-ate

Same root, CORONATE · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
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.

CORONATE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 146
Its 21 boards, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
7
First board
142
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

CORONATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACENOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start CORONA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CORONATE?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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