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ESCALADE
Definition of ESCALADE
noun
An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.
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.
ESCALADE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ESCALADE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACDEELS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and A appear more than once.
Words that start ESCALA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found ESCALADE?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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