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ELUCIDATORY
Definition of ELUCIDATORY
adjective
Serving to elucidate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From elucidate + -ory.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ELUCIDATORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 47 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ELUCIDATORY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACDEILORTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ELUCIDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found ELUCIDATORY?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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