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MANDUCATORY
Definition of MANDUCATORY
adjective
Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From manducate + -ory.
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.
MANDUCATORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 108, 5 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MANDUCATORY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACDMNORTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MANDUCA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MANDUCATORY?
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 108 - and most players walked straight past it.
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