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SERRATUS
Definition of SERRATUS
noun
Any of several muscles of the vertebral or costal region that produce a serrated border.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin serratus.
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 (26,371)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SERRATUS · 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.
SERRATUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 35 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SERRATUS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AERRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SERRAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SERRATUS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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