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CURVATE
Definition of CURVATE
adjective
bent in a regular form ; curved.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English (y)curvat(e) (“bent; hunched, stooped”), borrowed from Latin curvātus (“curved”), perfect passive participle of curvō (“to curve”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from curvus + -ō (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.
CURVATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CURVATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACERTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CURVAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found CURVATE?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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