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LUXATING

8 letters

Definition of LUXATING

verb

present participle and gerund of luxate

LUXATE

verb

To dislocate; to displace a body part.

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Another sense

LUXATING carries a second meaning.

  1. verb

    Present participle of luxate.

Word DNA

LUXATING inherits its ancestry from its root, LUXATE.

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, LUXATE · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

LUXATING in a sentence

“Although health complications are not so common in the miniature Pomeranian, they may still suffer from few complications such as luxating patella.”

xml's Blinklist.com, 2008

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.

LUXATING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 75 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 159
Its 19 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
19
Boards found on
87
First board
157
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

madrmo

on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LUXATING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

LUXATING starts with L and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGILNTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start LUXATI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found LUXATING?

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