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DELATES

7 letters

Definition of DELATES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of delate

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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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.

DELATES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 2 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
107
First board
112
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First found by a player on Day 107, 4 September 2026.

Built from these letters

DELATES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DELATES starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEELST - 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.

STEALED

Words that start DELATE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DELATEDELATED

Could you have found DELATES?

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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.

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