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NICTATED

8 letters

Definition of NICTATED

verb

simple past and past participle of nictate

NICTATE

verb

To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.

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Word DNA

NICTATED inherits its ancestry from its root, NICTATE.

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 (23,951)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb-ate

Same root, NICTATE · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

NICTATED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 7 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
90
First board
154
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

palindromic

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

NICTATED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NICTATED starts with N and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEINTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Words that start NICTAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

NICTATENICTATESNICTATINGNICTATIONNICTATIONS

Could you have found NICTATED?

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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