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ADULATION
Definition of ADULATION
noun
Flattery; fulsome praise.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ADULATION · 1 relative 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.
ADULATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 90 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ADULATION starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AADILNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ADULAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ADULATION?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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