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CREMATE
Definition of CREMATE
verb
To burn something to ashes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested in 1889; borrowed from Latin cremātus, perfect passive participle of cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CREMATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CREMATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEMRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CREMAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CREMATE?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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