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HORTATIVE
Definition of HORTATIVE
adjective
Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin hortātīvus, from hortor (“to exhort”).
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.
HORTATIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
Built from these letters
HORTATIVE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHIORTTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start HORTAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HORTATIVE?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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