The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

PULVERATE

9 letters

Definition of PULVERATE

verb

To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin pulveratus, past participle of pulverare (“to pulverize”). See pulverize. By surface analysis, pulver + -ate.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,633)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-ate

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

PULVERATE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its one board, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

cpbattman

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

PULVERATE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEELPRTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start PULVER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PULVERATE?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER