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CURATIVE
Definition of CURATIVE
adjective
Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French curatif.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (334)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CURATIVE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CURATIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CURATIVE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEIRTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CURATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found CURATIVE?
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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