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MODULATE
Definition of MODULATE
verb
To regulate, adjust or adapt. To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument. To vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music). To move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression.
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Where it comes from
From Latin modulor (“to measure, regulate, modulate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from modulus (“measure”). Compare module, modulus. By surface analysis, modul(e) + -ate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (10,004)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MODULATE · 2 relatives 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.
MODULATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MODULATE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADELMOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MODULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found MODULATE?
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