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LATTENS
Definition of LATTENS
noun
plural of latten
noun
An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
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Word DNA
LATTENS inherits its ancestry from its root, LATTEN.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,157)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LATTEN · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Turkish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LATTENS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 167, 3 November 2026.
Built from these letters
LATTENS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AELNSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found LATTENS?
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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.
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