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PLANTIGRADE
Definition of PLANTIGRADE
adjective
Of an animal: walking with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French plantigrade, from Latin planta (“sole of the foot”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”)) + -grade, from Latin gradus (“pace, step”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,191)
How it is built
Same root, PLANTIGRADE · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PLANTIGRADE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PLANTIGRADE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AADEGILNPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found PLANTIGRADE?
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