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RELEGATE
Definition of RELEGATE
verb
Exile, banish, remove, or send away. Exile or banish to a particular place. Remove (oneself) to a distance from something or somewhere. Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate. Remove or send to a place far away.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).
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.
RELEGATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RELEGATE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEEGLRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RELEGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RELEGATE?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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