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LEGATO
Definition of LEGATO
adverb
Smoothly, in a connected manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin ligō (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LEGATO · 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.
LEGATO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 81 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LEGATO starts with L and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AEGLOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LEGATO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found LEGATO?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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