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INTERCALATED
Definition of INTERCALATED
verb
simple past and past participle of intercalate
verb
To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
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Where it comes from
See intercalate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, INTERCALATE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INTERCALATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INTERCALATED starts with I and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDEEILNRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T, E and A appear more than once.
Words that start INTERCAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INTERCALATED?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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