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MENSTRUATE
Definition of MENSTRUATE
verb
To stain with or as if with menses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From menstruum + -ate (verb-forming suffix); sense 2 (“to undergo menstruation”) is possibly a back-formation from menstruation.
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.
MENSTRUATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MENSTRUATE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEMNRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Words that start MENSTR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MENSTRUATE?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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