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ORNATE
Definition of ORNATE
adjective
Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of orné.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ORNATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ORNATE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AENORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ORNATE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found ORNATE?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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