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LANATE
Definition of LANATE
adjective
Covered in or composed of woolly hairs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested in 1760; borrowed from Latin lānātus (“woolly”), from lāna, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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.
LANATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 82, 10 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LANATE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAELNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found LANATE?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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