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NATALITY
Definition of NATALITY
noun
The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From natal + -ity, perhaps after mortality. Compare French natalité (“birthrate”) and Middle English natalyte (“birth”). Philosophical usage introduced by Hannah Arendt.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, NATAL · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names French, Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NATALITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NATALITY starts with N and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AAILNTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.
Words that start NATALI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NATALITY?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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