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INVOLUTES

9 letters

Definition of INVOLUTES

noun

plural of involute

INVOLUTE

adjective

Difficult to understand; complicated.

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Word DNA

INVOLUTES inherits its ancestry from its root, INVOLUTE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,643)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, INVOLUTE · 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.

INVOLUTES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 64 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 38 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
54
First board
142
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

dodechotomy

on Day 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

INVOLUTES starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILNOSTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start INVOLU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INVOLUTEINVOLUCELINVOLUCRAINVOLUCREINVOLUTEDINVOLUCELSINVOLUCRALINVOLUCRESINVOLUCRUMINVOLUTELYINVOLUTINGINVOLUTION

Could you have found INVOLUTES?

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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.

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