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ALATION
Definition of ALATION
noun
The state of being winged.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French, from Latin alatus (“winged”).
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.
ALATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 116, 13 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALATION starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAILNOT - 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 ALATIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALATION?
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 116 - and most players walked straight past it.
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