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DESALINATED
Definition of DESALINATED
verb
simple past and past participle of desalinate
verb
To remove the salt from something, especially from seawater for use in a domestic water supply
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Word DNA
DESALINATED inherits its ancestry from its root, DESALINATE.
How it is built
Same root, DESALINATE · 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.
DESALINATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DESALINATED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADDEEILNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D, E and A appear more than once.
Words that start DESALIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DESALINATED?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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