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SPOLIATIVE
Definition of SPOLIATIVE
adjective
Serving to take away, diminish, or rob. Serving to diminish the amount of blood in the body.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare French spoliatif.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,061)
branch · 15.4% 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.
SPOLIATIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 95 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPOLIATIVE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIILOPSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start SPOLIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 47
Could you have found SPOLIATIVE?
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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.
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