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ENSATE
Definition of ENSATE
adjective
sword-shaped
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From New Latin ensatus, from Latin ensis (“sword”).
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.
ENSATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
Built from these letters
ENSATE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEENST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ENSATE?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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