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CULMINATE
Definition of CULMINATE
verb
Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
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Where it comes from
First attested in 1647; borrowed from Medieval Latin culminātus, perfect passive participle of culminō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin culmen (“peak, highest point”, oblique stem culmin-) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), older form columen (“top, summit”), from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from a Proto-Indo-European base *kol-, *kelH- (“to project, rise; peak, summit, top”), whence also English hill and holm.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CULMINATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CULMINATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEILMNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CULMIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
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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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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