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ADOPTION
Definition of ADOPTION
noun
The act of adopting.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”). Equivalent to adopt + -ion.
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.
ADOPTION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ADOPTION starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADINOOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start ADOPTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found ADOPTION?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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