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PALPATE
Definition of PALPATE
verb
To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin palpātus, perfect passive participle of palpō (“touch softly”).
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.
PALPATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PALPATE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAELPPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and A appear more than once.
Words that start PALPAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PALPATE?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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