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NUPTIALS
Definition of NUPTIALS
noun
A wedding ceremony.
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Where it comes from
From nuptial, borrowed from Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), from nūptiae (“wedding”) (also plural only), from nūpta, from nūbō (“to marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho-, *snewbʰ- (“to marry, wed”). Cognate with French noces and Italian nozze.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Indo-European
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,622)
How it is built
Same root, NUPTIAL · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names French, Italian.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NUPTIALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 202 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
NUPTIALS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AILNPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start NUPTIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
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