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OXALATING

9 letters

Definition of OXALATING

verb

present participle and gerund of oxalate

OXALATE

noun

Any salt or ester of oxalic acid.

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Word DNA

OXALATING inherits its ancestry from its root, OXALATE.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,269)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-ate

Same root, OXALATE · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

OXALATING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 7 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
91
First board
145
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

qifrey

on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

OXALATING
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OXALATING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AAGILNOTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start OXALAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OXALATING?

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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.

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