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GLOMERATE

9 letters

Definition of GLOMERATE

verb

To gather or curl into a ball; to collect (threads, etc.) into a spherical form or mass.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin glomerātus, perfect passive participle of glomero (“to glomerate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,487)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

verb-ate

Same root, GLOMERATE · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GLOMERATE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 143
Its 13 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
74
First board
141
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

auntvikkii

on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GLOMERATE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GLOMERATE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEGLMORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start GLOMER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GLOMERAGLOMERULEGLOMERULIGLOMERATEDGLOMERATESGLOMERULARGLOMERULESGLOMERULUSGLOMERATINGGLOMERATIONGLOMERULATE

Could you have found GLOMERATE?

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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.

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