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SCUTELLATED
Definition of SCUTELLATED
adjective
scutellate
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From scutellate + -d.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
SCUTELLATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
Built from these letters
SCUTELLATED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEELLSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T, E and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SCUTELL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCUTELLATED?
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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