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ADMITTANCE
Definition of ADMITTANCE
noun
The act of admitting.
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Where it comes from
From admit + -ance. Sense 5 was coined by electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist Oliver Heaviside in 1887.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ADMIT · 5 relatives 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.
ADMITTANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
Built from these letters
ADMITTANCE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACDEIMNTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ADMITT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ADMITTANCE?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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