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AGITATION
Definition of AGITATION
noun
The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French agitation, from Latin agitātiō (“movement, agitation”).
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
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AGITATION · 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.
AGITATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
Built from these letters
AGITATION starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAGIINOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, I and T appear more than once.
Words that start AGITAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AGITATION?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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