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LEVIGATES

9 letters

Definition of LEVIGATES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of levigate

LEVIGATE

verb

To make smooth or polish.

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Word DNA

LEVIGATES inherits its ancestry from its root, LEVIGATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (24,117)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb-ate

Same root, LEVIGATE · 7 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

LEVIGATES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 4 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
98
First board
156
Latest board
40
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

gosia

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LEVIGATES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

LEVIGATES starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEGILSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start LEVIGA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found LEVIGATES?

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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.

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