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SALTATORY
Definition of SALTATORY
adjective
Of or pertaining to leaps or leaping.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin saltātōrius.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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 (26,276)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SALTATORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SALTATORY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AALORSTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.
Words that start SALTAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SALTATORY?
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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.
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