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RECUPERATING
Definition of RECUPERATING
verb
present participle and gerund of recuperate
RECUPERATE
verb
To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
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Word DNA
RECUPERATING inherits its ancestry from its root, RECUPERATE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RECUPERATE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RECUPERATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RECUPERATING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEEGINPRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.
Words that start RECUPERA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RECUPERATING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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