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VALPROATES

10 letters

Definition of VALPROATES

noun

plural of valproate

VALPROATE

noun

Any salt or ester of valproic acid.

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Word DNA

VALPROATES inherits its ancestry from its root, VALPROATE.

How it is built

nouncompound-ate

Same root, VALPROATE · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

VALPROATES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 141
Its one board, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

mugley

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VALPROATES
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

VALPROATES starts with V and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAELOPRSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start VALPRO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found VALPROATES?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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