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EXPLICATED
Definition of EXPLICATED
verb
simple past and past participle of explicate
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Another sense
EXPLICATED carries a second meaning.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of explicate.
Word DNA
EXPLICATED inherits its ancestry from its root, EXPLICATE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, EXPLICATE · 3 relatives in the game
EXPLICATED in a sentence
“On Sunday, all that was missing from the giant state-of-the-art screen, where supertitles explicated the Italian text, were the levels of information you normally get at a baseball game.”
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EXPLICATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 105 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
EXPLICATED starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEEILPTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXPLIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found EXPLICATED?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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