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ORIENTATE
Definition of ORIENTATE
verb
To face a given direction.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From orient + -ate or a back-formation from orientation. Compare French orienter and Italian orientare.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ORIENT · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names French, Italian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ORIENTATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ORIENTATE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEINORTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Words that start ORIENT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ORIENTATE?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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