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CURATE
Definition of CURATE
noun
An assistant rector or vicar.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin cūrātus (“one who has been curated, a curate”), a substantivation of the perfect passive participle of cūrō. Doublet of curato. Equivalent to cure + -ate (noun-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.
CURATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CURATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACERTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CURATE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CURATE?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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