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VENTILATE
Definition of VENTILATE
verb
To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English, borrowed from Latin ventilātus, past participle of ventilō.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VENTILATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
Built from these letters
VENTILATE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEILNTTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Words that start VENTIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VENTILATE?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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