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DEREGULATE
Definition of DEREGULATE
verb
To remove the regulations, or legal restrictions, from.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From de- + regulate.
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.
DEREGULATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
Built from these letters
DEREGULATE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEEEGLRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start DEREGU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DEREGULATE?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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