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PLAUDIT
Definition of PLAUDIT
noun
A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PLAUDIT carries 3 further meanings.
noun
Enthusiastic expression of praise or approval.
“a new play that opened to the plaudits of the critics.”
noun
An expression or round of applause; praise bestowed with audible demonstrations: in the plural, equivalent to applause.
noun
enthusiastic approval
“he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd”
Where it comes from
For earlier plaudite, borrowed from Latin plaudite, second-person plural imperative of plaudere (“to applaud”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,711)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLAUDIT · 1 relative in the game
PLAUDIT in a sentence
“I’m on a semi-vacation for a couple of weeks and posting lightly or on offbeat topics such such as plaudit abuse that I normally deal with only in the context of book reviews.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PLAUDIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 89 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PLAUDIT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ADILPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PLAUDIT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PLAUDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found PLAUDIT?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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