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RESPIRATORY

/ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/11 letters

Definition of RESPIRATORY

adjective

Relating to respiration or the organs of respiration; breathing.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from New Latin respīrātōrius, equal to respire + -atory.

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 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,378)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective5 syllablescompound-atory

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

RESPIRATORY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its one board, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
155
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

jnclytn

on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RESPIRATORY
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RESPIRATORY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEIOPRRRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start RESPIRA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RESPIRATERESPIRABLERESPIRATEDRESPIRATORRESPIRATINGRESPIRATIONRESPIRATORSRESPIRATIONS

Could you have found RESPIRATORY?

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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.

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