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ABSENCE
Definition of ABSENCE
noun
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English absence, from Old French absence, ausence, from Latin absentia, from absēns (“absent”), present active participle of absum (“to be away or absent”), from ab (“from, away from”) + sum (“to be”).
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.
ABSENCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ABSENCE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEENS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start ABSENC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ABSENCE?
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 103 - and most players walked straight past it.
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