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AMBULANCE
Definition of AMBULANCE
noun
An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,711)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AMBULANCE · 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.
AMBULANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AMBULANCE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABCELMNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start AMBULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found AMBULANCE?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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